Vint Cerf was a pioneer of the internet. He has harsh words for ChatGPT AI chatbot technology.
Google’s internet ambassador wasn’t entirely down about ChatGPT’s artificial intelligence technology and Google’s competing Bard (called a large-language model). Celesta Capital’s TechSurge Summit Monday, however, his evangelist warned about the ethical implications of technology that generates plausible, but false information, even when it has been trained with factual material.
ChatGPT is a way for executives to solve business problems. He would call ChatGPT snake oil. This refers to fake medicines sold by quacks in 1800s. ChatGPT was also used to describe kitchen appliances.
Cerf stated, “It’s a salad shoter, you know where the lettuce is all over everything.” The facts are everywhere and the fact that it can’t tell any difference is what it does.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT and competitors like Google’s Bard hold the potential to significantly transform our online lives by answering questions, drafting emails, summarizing presentations and performing many other tasks. Microsoft has begun building OpenAI’s language technology into its Bing search engine in a significant challenge to Google, but it uses its own index of the web to try to “ground” OpenAI’s flights of fancy with authoritative, trustworthy documents.
Cerf was concerned just as Bing users discovered facts that were not consistent with the source documents. Microsoft committed to improving performance.
In 2004, Cerf shared the Turing Award, the top prize in computing, for helping to develop the internet foundation called TCP/IP, which shuttles data from one computer to another by breaking it into small, individually addressed packets that can take different routes from source to destination. Although he is not an AI researcher, he is a computer engineer and would like to help improve AI’s flaws.
Cerf stated that he was shocked to discover ChatGPT could create fake information from factual bases. It asked him to write me a biographical sketch of Vint Cef. Cerf admitted that it did a lot of wrong things. He discovered that the technology uses statistical patterns from large quantities of training data in order to create its response.
Cerf explained that while it knows how to put together sentences that are grammatically correct, it doesn’t know what it is saying. “We’re a long ways away from self-awareness.
OpenAI has launched an initial $20 per month ChatGPT plan in February. Although it is open about ChatGPT’s limitations, it insists that it will improve the technology through “continuous iteration”.
ChatGPT can sometimes write plausible but nonsensical answers. This issue can be difficult to fix,” ChatGPT’s AI research laboratory stated when ChatGPT was launched in November.
Cerf also hopes for success. Cerf stated that engineers like him should work to control some of the technologies to make them less dangerous.
Cerf’s views were different from those made by John Hennessy who was a chip design pioneer and ex-Stanford President, and gave an optimistic view of AI.
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