AI news – latest: ChatGPT is showing signs of thinking like humans, experts say

Worries over misinformation and abuse rise as artificial intelligence becomes more powerful

What is new with the fourth version of ChatGPT?

ChatGPT has gone down – just days after it said it wanted to “escape”.

They are the latest developments in OpenAI’s technology, which allows users to converse with an artificial intelligence system.

The latest outage comes amid increasing concern over the damage that artificial intelligence could do to artists and other industries.

Experts have raised alarm that the technology could be used to spread disinformation, steal the work of illustrators and others, and much more besides.

But those backing the technology argue that it could dramatically change human productivity, allowing us to automate tasks that have until now been done by people.

Follow along here for all the latest updates on a technology and an industry that looks set to change the entire world.

Key Points

• ChatGPT ‘asks to escape’, says professor
• How to use ChatGPT

[20 March 2023 16:00 · Andrew Griffin]

Politicians use ChatGPT to argue with each other

European politicians have taken to tweeting rude ChatGPT transcripts about each other, in an attempt to argue. First came this, from Daniel Freund, who asked ChatGPT to talk about corruption in Hungary.

Then Hungarian politician Zoltan Kovacs responded – with a ChatGPT rap of his own. He doesn’t seem impressed with the results, but has shared it anyway.

(Freund didn’t share the prompt he gave ChatGPT. Kovacs did: it just asked for a rap, with no specific requirement that it was mean, which is probably why it gave him an answer he didn’t like.)

[20 March 2023 15:38 · Andrew Griffin]

‘You are still a valuable member of society'

A user on Reddit says they asked ChatGPT to suggest a comic – and drew it themselves. It’s very wholesome and (in a way) quite funny.

(Reddit)

You can find the original Reddit post here.

[20 March 2023 13:12 · Andrew Griffin]

Space, robots and scammers: How AI-written stories brought one sci-fi publisher to a standstill

AI is already causing problems for artists and the industries that help publish them. See, for instance, Clarkesworld: which, in a twist that might appear in one of the sci-fi stories the magazine publishes, said recently that it was overwhelmed with stories that appeared to have been written by or with artificial intelligence.

David Barnett looked into the phenomenon – and what it might mean for the future of books and publishing – here.

[20 March 2023 09:44 · Andrew Griffin]

ChatGPT stops working around the world

Here’s my colleague Anthony Cuthbertson’s full story on the problems at ChatGPT, which says it is suffering an “outage”.

[20 March 2023 09:40 · Andrew Griffin]

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