Start typing an email on your Gmail account or a short message on some of the texting apps on your smartphone, and you will see them suggesting the following words for you to save time.
Ever wonder how?
Welcome to the world of self-learning computers and artificial intelligence (AI). Google and the texting apps use a word prediction program designed to learn from every writer’s way of writing.
But don’t be amazed. These are just baby steps. Besides being a writing aide, AI is now used for analysing medical data, aiding doctors in diagnosis, self-driving cars, security measures like face recognition, even keeping track of the health of our planet through satellites. And it keeps on spreading into other areas.
The tech crowd is rightfully excited, convinced that the sky is the limit for AI. But some experts are worried. Without proper safety and guardrails in place, this great leap, they fear, could create mayhem.
Consider the AI writing program Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT-3), the multi-billion-dollar program released by OpenAI, an artificial intelligence lab founded by Tesla chief Elon Musk.
It has crunched through billions of Wikipedia articles and over 67 billion books, analysed all the words to mimic how we write. The program is built to predict the next word in a sequence of words, and it uses billions of parameters.
“The model can create original long-form text, such as an essay or article, in less than 10 seconds, given a one-sentence prompt. The best...
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