Benefits, risks of Artificial Intelligence, CHAT GPT4
INTERNATIONAL polymath Stephen Wolfram has added the support of his computational software to Chat GPT4. This is a sign of his confidence in the “conversational” AI technology which had previously already been experiential in its growth!
Benefits will come, but threats have been expressed! Putin stated 2 years ago that “he who controls AI will control the world.” The world’s richest person Elon Musk has announced, as a massive danger, his belief that within two years Artificial Intelligence will exceed that of human beings. This has met with shrieks of denial and disapproval, but Musk’s detailed work with AI for vehicles has provided him with unique training in AI’s strengths and weaknesses and he is alarmed!
There is a danger that, as in other areas, Africa may be left behind. Here are some areas of importance.
Educational
What would you expect your son or daughter’s teacher to do if receiving an excellent homework essay, compiled almost entirely by the use of Chat GPT4? Chat GPT-4 is a new language model created by OpenAI that can generate text that is similar to human speech. It advances the technology used by ChatGPT, which is currently based on GPT-3.5. GPT is the acronym for Generative Pre-trained Transformer, a deep learning technology that uses artificial neural networks to write like a human.
The essay would contain no grammatical or spelling errors and would be well researched and logically constructed. In normal circumstances it would blow the teachers mind due to its excellence.
But if your daughter/son produced this without effort, and without much learning (as little would be necessary), what would be the benefit? Educational progress would be minimal, and the whole procedure would be something of a lie!
This is a dilemma, not only for parents, but also for teachers who will quickly become aware of considerably improved, and questionable, standards of homework!
In the next few months one solution will be some sort of classroom check on students’ recall of the homework produced. Conceptual mastery would be a good sign, even if AI had helped, whereas ignorance of the contents would be evidence of “collusion” with Chat GPT4.
This is only a simple example of many of the ways in which Chat GPT4 will become involved in education. Of possible benefit might be the structure of learning sequences, and tests of progress, presentation of key concepts and illustrations thereof, and research work on the vast international literature which would be available on almost any topic. Wolfram/Alpha can be added to Chat GPT4 to introduce skills for the most complex of computational problems in mathematics, chemistry and physics.
However, again, as noted, avoidance of the effort of learning is not necessarily an educational advantage! The same dilemma applies at university level, even in the research and compilation of PhD theses. Even without the capacity to calculate Chat GPT4 is able to pass the United States Bar Exam!
Medicine
In medicine a facility is developing whereby all physiological data submitted by the doctor will receive immediate turnaround of comprehensive diagnoses with recommendations of treatments.
Although minimal interaction between the patient and doctor might have taken place, would you might prefer an accurate computerized diagnosis, in almost every case, by Chat GPT4, to the possibility of human error involved in the current system of doctors depending upon their capacities to review all relevant recent research and data and apply this information optimally for the patient’s benefit?
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