AI and tools like ChatGPT and Bing Assistant, Claude etc. may have changed the way we work in many industries. I just recently found that asking obscure programming questions give some surprisingly useful or halfway working responses in Microsoft Bing assistant. But will it be what some consider an AGI – a general intelligence to match human thought or ingenuity?
In a recent article, Matteo Wong notes that the search for a super-human intelligence now has a “deadline” – as top tech execs have said this will certainly happen by 2030, 2026, or even 2025.
What will the future hold for such an intelligence if published online? The companies that build these apps, set the privacy policy, yet there have still been some potential privacy vulnerabilities that were recently patched in ChatGPT and ChatGPT for Mac. In a recent Atlantic article, they presume that tech companies, “with a reputation to protect, surely isn’t going to engineer its chatbots to swindle…” but will that always be the case – and what if we take this for granted, with what we are presuming is like a human conversation – often soon to be forgotten, and not on some server record indefinitely? Like search, AI can and will be used for more targeted ads and may bring up more and more privacy issues if more private information is uploaded in the form of a chat.
The WildChat data set, gathered with consent from a million chat sessions, is an interesting look at what people are asking and using LLMs for today. You can browse and search through the Wild Data dataset Github here.
Weekly livestream
Are you interested in the future of AI? If you are a developer or working in any IT field it may be useful for you to watch the AI live stream lectures on Fridays 2PM pacific. These are free Zoom livestreams from the Oregon State University.