AI Has Been Watching Us
Artificial intelligence learns from humans. That explains a lot.
AI systems are trained on enormous amounts of human-created information, allowing them to recognize patterns, generate responses, and perform tasks that once seemed uniquely human. Tools like ChatGPT have made that process visible to millions of people, because now we can actually have conversations with artificial intelligence and see some of the results.
Of course, learning from humans comes with a slight quality-control problem: humans.
We forget passwords, fight with printers, accept cookies without reading anything, check our smartwatches every six minutes, and occasionally spend twenty minutes looking for the phone that’s already in our hand. If artificial intelligence is studying us, it has been given some interesting training material.
That may explain why AI can sometimes be remarkably useful and surprisingly questionable at exactly the same time. If you’ve ever wondered whether the machine really knows what it’s doing, see Can You Trust ChatGPT? And for another look at the complicated relationship between humans and intelligent machines, see When AI Still Needs a Human.
Artificial intelligence may eventually become smarter than all of us.
Considering its teachers, that would be quite an accomplishment.
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