Elon Musk provided his opinion on what the software, developed by a firm he co-founded, meant for assignments when educators pushed to adjust to changing technology saw the need to prohibit ChatGPT from classrooms.
The research facility OpenAI, which Musk and Sam Altman helped cofound in part in 2015, launched ChatGPT at the end of November. This generative pre-trained transformer accepts user cues and then uses predictive text to produce a variety of textual products, such as essays, scripts, or code. While the wealthy tech tycoon had referred to the development as “scary good,” the New York City Department of Education focused on the issue when they put a ban on the program.
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Jenna Lyle, a spokesperson for NYCDOE, offered a statement to NBC News that read, “While the tool may be able to provide quick and easy answers to questions, it does not build critical-thinking and problem-solving skills, which are essential for academic and lifelong success.”
Because of the potential “negative repercussions on student learning,” the department forbade the use of the software on networks and devices in public schools. Musk’s response to the news was different; he appeared to applaud the program’s capabilities and responded on Twitter on Thursday to a critic who called the prohibition “The war on children increases” by writing, “It’s a new world. Hello homework!
The owner of Twitter’s hot take was consistent with his earlier, widely reported response to ChatGPT’s capabilities when he wrote on December 3 that “ChatGPT is scary good.” AI that is dangerously powerful is not far away.
Meanwhile, in December Altman offered a more measured opinion on the program’s current capabilities, writing, “ChatGPT is incredibly limited, but good enough at some things to create a misleading impression of greatness. It’s a mistake to be relying on it for anything important right now. It’s a preview of progress; we have lots of work to do on robustness and truthfulness. Fun creative inspiration; great! Reliance for factual queries; not such a good idea. We will work hard to improve!”
Edward Tian, a computer science undergraduate at Princeton University, tweeted that he had successfully done this. For the time being, resourceful developers have already started working on ways to determine whether a piece of writing was produced by AI or traditionally created.
“I spent New Years building GPTZero–an app that can quickly and efficiently detect whether an essay is ChatGPT or human written,” Tian posted before later writing to NBC News, “AI text generation is like opening a pandora’s box. It’s an incredibly exciting innovations, but with any new technology we need to build safeguards so that it is adopted responsibly.”
One company that is interested in using the program is none other than Microsoft, which, according to the Information, invested $1 billion in OpenAI to integrate the technology into their Bing search engine and increase its competitiveness with Google. Currently, Google receives 84 percent of search engine traffic, whereas Bing receives only about nine percent.
The Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI might increase its worth to $29 billion if it sold $300 million in shares to Thrive Capital and Founders Fund.
