OpenAI, known for its groundbreaking AI technologies, is facing a series of lawsuits from figures like George R.R. Martin and Sarah Silverman, primarily over copyright issues. The latest to join this legal battle is The New York Times (NYT), targeting both Microsoft’s Copilot and OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
If AIs are so smart, why do they get so many things wrong? Today’s AIs are prone to errors and “hallucinations“, which is just a euphemism for delivering incorrect answers. A glaring example occurred in February 2023 when Google’s AI, Bard, erroneously claimed the James Webb Space Telescope took the first picture of an exoplanet. There’s a plethora of stories on Reddit about AI just not giving the right answers. If this sounds like your experience with AI, then you’re probably not engaging with AI in the right way. Today’s AIs aren’t like the ones depicted in Hollywood, at least not yet.
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There has been a lot of hoopla over the dangers of AI and even calls to suspend AI research for a while. If people aren’t worried about AIs taking over the world, they’re worried about AIs taking over their jobs. People are genuinely concerned, and they should be. Job loss is coming, but it’s not the AIs that are to blame. It’s the employers.
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