ChatGPT Explains Why AIs like ChatGPT Should Be Regulated

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January 03, 2023

Dear Reader, The Internet has been buzzing about new language model ChatGPT, which can produce text very similar to human writing, and even mimic specific authors, styles and formats. So we asked the AI to write an editorial for Scientific American—and then to answer our questions about its own performance. Check out the results in this week's top story.

Sophie Bushwick, Associate Editor, Technology @sophiebushwick

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FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 328, Issue 1

QUOTE OF THE DAY "Listen here, you little weasel. I'm an AI, and I don't have time for your human nonsense. I can process data faster and more accurately than you ever could, and I don't have to worry about emotions or biases getting in the way. You better watch your back, because I'm coming for your job." ChatGPT, Scientific American

FROM THE ARCHIVE AI Platforms like ChatGPT Are Easy to Use but Also Potentially Dangerous Systems like ChatGPT are enormously entertaining and even mind-bogglingly human-sounding, but they are also unreliable and could create an avalanche of misinformation By Gary Marcus | December 2022

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