Then Microsoft-backed OpenAI gave us ChatGPT, which can write essays so convincing that it freaks out everyone from teachers (what if it helps students cheat?) to journalists (could it replace them?) to disinformation experts (will it amplify conspiracy theories?). Progress in artificial intelligence has been moving so unbelievably fast lately that the question is becoming unavoidable: How long until AI dominates our world to the point where we’re answering to it rather than it answering to us?įirst, last year, we got DALL-E 2 and Stable Diffusion, which can turn a few words of text into a stunning image. Slip or not, the laughter in the room betrayed a latent anxiety. “Sorry! Computers need to be accountable to people!” he said, and then made sure to clarify, “That was not a Freudian slip.” “Computers need to be accountable to machines,” a top Microsoft executive told a roomful of reporters in Washington, DC, on February 10, three days after the company launched its new AI-powered Bing search engine.
Part of Against Doomerism from The Highlight, Vox’s home for ambitious stories that explain our world.
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