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ChatGPT a stern reminder of the need for tougher AI governance
Indonesia needs to take a leap and get ahead of the game in regulating AI technology, or at least take small steps.
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A mobile phone screen displays the logo of ChatGPT against a digital backdrop of the chatbot’s developer, OpenAI, in this picture taken on Jan. 23, 2023 in Toulouse, southwestern France. (AFP/ Lionel Bonaventure)
Toward the end of last year, news about a new artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot capable of generating text on almost any topic got the internet talking. The bot in question is ChatGPT, which was developed by OpenAI, a young San Francisco-based AI lab.
ChatGPT has apparently acquired over 10 million daily users since, according to Brett Winton of ARK Investment Management (@wintonARK), exceeding Instagram.
While much of the hubbub about ChatGPT focuses on its misuse by students to complete school assignments, says an article on the Semarang State University website, in truth, the tech is a lot more than that. ChatGPT is essentially a human-like chatbot. Unlike other bots, users can interact with it using natural language, like you would chat with a friend.
It is also trained on a massive amount of text data and given this, could interact with humans in a more fluid and conversational way than other bots. Its features include answering follow-up queries by users, engaging in a wide variety of topics and even admitting its own errors.
ChatGPT is not just an ingenuous piece of algorithm to play with; it is also a powerful machine that can produce TV scripts, create song lyrics and write poetry, when fed the right set of data.
The chatbot even made recent headlines for being intelligent enough to pass several law and business school exams in the United States.
