by - Steve Wozniak said during an interview with CNBC on Wednesday that OpenAI’s ChatGPT is “pretty impressive.”
- He also warned that it could make terrible mistakes.
- “The problem is that it does us good, but it can make terrible mistakes if it doesn’t know what humanity is,” Wozniak warned.
Viral AI chatbot ChatGPT may have amassed 100 million users in just over two months, but it’s also prompted skepticism.
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak advised caution about the popular chatbot, telling Squawk Box co-host Andrew Ross Sorkin in an impromptu interview Wednesday that while he finds ChatGPT “pretty impressive” and “useful for people,” he also sees the potential to do this has to make some serious mistakes.
“The problem is that it does us good, but it can make terrible mistakes if it doesn’t know what humanity is,” Wozniak warned.
In the interview, Wozniak also drew a parallel with concerns about AI technology in self-driving cars, saying that AI cannot currently replace human drivers.
“It’s like you’re driving a car and you know what other cars might be doing right now because you know people,” he said.
ChatGPT is becoming more and more popular
But despite the cynicism surrounding the technology, ChatGPT is growing in popularity. Recently, OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, entered into a $10 billion partnership with Microsoft to bring AI into products like the Bing search engine and Microsoft Office.
The chatbot is easy to use – users can enter a question or request and receive a corresponding response. It’s able to explain quantum physics, write a poem on command, and even help students write college essays.
But it’s not foolproof — Insider’s Hasan Chowdhury reported in February that Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, admitted that ChatGPT has “deficiencies in terms of bias,” where it could potentially spit out racist, sexist, or biased responses at times.
And it’s not just ChatGPT. Google’s new experimental AI chatbot Bard has given an inaccurate answer to a question about the James Webb Space Telescope. This led to Alphabet, Google’s parent company, losing around $100 billion in market share last Thursday after the inaccuracy became widely publicized.
Steve Wozniak did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.
