SHOULD WE BE AFRAID OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE? ChatGPT challenges for humans

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In exactly three months, ChatGPT has brought artificial intelligence into everyone’s living room. Not since the advent of the Internet in the early 90’s, or even the appearance of the calculator, has any “technology” caused such a storm in the brain.

Because ChatGPT, available to everyone on the web, can do almost anything: write poems, synthesize the theory of relativity, write your job application, analyze the stakes of the Cold War, translate your texts into English or Swiss German, pass a master’s exam… A tool of tremendous power that can assist, or even replace, humans in countless intellectual tasks. The OpenAI tool opens up extremely promising perspectives, especially in terms of equitable access to information.

But at the same time, the predictive language generator has raised the worst fears. Because in the hands of conspiracy theorists, ChatGPT can, for example, turn into a machine to flood the networks with fake news of unprecedented power.

Will man manage to control these robots of a new kind, composed of thousands or tens of thousands of ultra-sophisticated algorithms, which endow the robots with a staggering “intelligence”. They still lack emotion and some common sense. But for how long? OpenAI has opened the breach with its ChatGPT, but Google, Microsoft, Amazon, all the big ones, are on its heels, and are preparing to put online even more advanced versions of intelligence.

Will humans be able to keep control of the machine? How to ensure that algorithms respect ethical rules, how to frame this “new industry”, how to legislate to prevent the abusive and anti-social use of artificial intelligence. Is ChatGPT an angel or a demon?