"Artificial" Intelligence
A beginner-friendly overview of AI history, ChatGPT, and how society should adapt.
Go now and look for tech news on internet, I'm sure that you'll see the phrase of "Artificial Intelligence" in more than half of them. So, how did Artifical Intelligence, which is seen as the foundation of next-gen tech, come to do things no different than a human? Maybe, what if we didn't discover the talents of ourselves yet? Could something human-made be smarter than it? Another question: Who came up with this concept of "Artificial Intelligence"?
In order to understand and develop something, we must first know its evolution. The literal term "Artificial Intelligence" was first coined in 1956 at a conference held at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, England. However, it was just coined. The world saw the first concrete example of Artificial Intelligence in 1997, when IBM's computer named Deep Blue defeated the world's most famous chess master, Garry Kasparov.
Today, there are many organizations working on Artificial Intelligence, but the most outstanding is undoubtedly OpenAI.
OpenAI is a non-profit organization founded in 2015 by Elon Musk and Sam Altman.
That organization is the organization that developed the DALL-E 2 and ChatGPT modules, which we see a lot most on the social media since a few months. Even we most see only this 2 modules, organization's works is not only limited with it. Translator from emoji to movie and text to code is only 2 examples of them.
All these modules are based on a tech called GPT-3. An improved version of the GPT-3 has made publicly available under the name ChatGPT in late 2022.
In fact, we can treat smart assistants as a very simple version of ChatGPT. However, smart assistants are based on the "Answer with (y) to a(n) (x) question." mechanism, so they give answers like "Sorry, I don't understand" when we say something complicated, their functionality is very limited and they are only built to do simple tasks and answer simple questions.
In ChatGPT, this is very different. You can ask and get anything you can think of, from simple internet questions to complex equations, and you can even write an article based on the theme, style, subject, or even an author's writing style. When I first got able to try ChatGPT, I thought that it will fail in Turkish, but I was wrong. It could easily write stories in a literary style in Turkish.
So, is there anyone who abuses ChatGPT? Of course there is. For example, students have started to have ChatGPT do their research/article writing assignments.
When these situations get too big, OpenAI has announnced that a watermark will be added to ChatGPT. It's not yet clear what kind of watermark it will be. Rumor has it that ChatGPT's writing style will be somewhat robotised. Even if the quality of the writing is not compromised, it will be easier for the reader to understand that it was written by a robot.
So, what I'm wondering is, if the public "Preview" version is so capable, how is the full capacity of this module? It's scary to even think about ...
However, there is such a difference between artificial intelligence and human beings that it is an indication that artificial intelligence can't become a writer/professor: Curiosity and desire. Every artificial intelligence, from the simplest to the most complex, is programmed to do what is asked. However, people wonder and want, this is how innovations come out.
Therefore, in the next generation, desires will come to the fore rather than talents. Because humans will want it and artificial intelligence will do it, artificial intelligence is the producer of this work, but the person who came up with this idea is a human, so that human should be appreciated, or should we appreciate the team behind artificial intelligence? Why don't we appreciate both?
So, I asked ChatGPT, "Could AI increase global unemployment?". I want to end the article with its answer ...
"AI has the potential to automate certain jobs, which could lead to job displacement in some industries. However, it could also create new jobs and boost economic growth. It's important for policymakers and industry leaders to consider the potential impact of AI on the workforce and take steps to mitigate negative effects, such as investing in retraining programs for workers. Additionally, some experts argue that the potential of AI to automate repetitive tasks could allow people to focus on more fulfilling and creative work."