(Atlantic Tech) – Matteo Wong:
The resources needed to build generative AI have allowed the tech industry to warp what the public expects from the technology. …
But that would also be a very narrow way to build and use generative AI. … People might also be willing to sacrifice performance for a more fair and transparent chatbot — benefiting from open AI will require not just redefining open-source, but reimagining what AI itself can and should look like. …
(Atlantic Tech) – Ian Bogost:
As a critic of technology, I must say that the enthusiasm for ChatGPT, a large-language model trained by OpenAI, is misplaced. …
First and foremost, ChatGPT lacks the ability to truly understand the complexity of human language and conversation. It is simply trained to generate words based on a given input, but it does not have the ability to truly comprehend the meaning behind those words. This means that any responses it generates are likely to be shallow and lacking in depth and insight. …
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