AI chatbots are having their "tulip mania" moment
SalonOn November 30, 2022, OpenAI announced the public release of ChatGPT-3, a large language model that can engage in astonishingly human-like conversations and answer an incredible variety of questions. Three weeks later, Google's management — wary that they had been publicly eclipsed by a competitor in the artificial intelligence technology space — issued a "Code Red" to staff. When a user poses a search request, Google's search engine returns dozens of helpful links along with targeted GPT, in contrast, provides direct answers to user questions. When asked, "What new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope can I tell my 9-year old about?," LaMDA gave two correct responses but then incorrectly stated that the Webb telescope had taken the first pictures of a planet outside our solar system. When we asked GPT, "Who won the Super Bowl this year?," it responded, "The Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LV, which was held on February 7, 2021."