Re: OpenAI begins piloting ChatGPT Professional, a premium version of its viral chatbot

As usual there is a phase in which new technologies are over hyped and get a great deal of attention from people who don’t really understand them. We’ve seen that with self-driving cars where eventually the unrealistic expectations collided with reality, and we now see it with large language models.  There remains a lot of fundamental research to evolve today’s AI to tomorrow’s AGI. We already know many of the challenges we need to address. They won’t get air time in the heat of peak hype, but will gradually become the focus of research programs as the hype dissipates and a more reasoned analysis takes it place.

> On 11 Jan 2023, at 19:38, ProjectParadigm-ICT-Program <metadataportals@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> OpenAI begins piloting ChatGPT Professional, a premium version of its viral chatbot
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> https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/11/openai-begins-piloting-chatgpt-professional-a-premium-version-of-its-viral-chatbot/
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> I posted a comment, and look at the thumbs downs I got, which is indicative and actually frightening, because no-one seems to care about the serious issues pointed out in dozens of studies, by dozens of scholars and engineers, including philosophers, psychologists and educators.
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> If you Google 'dangers of ChatGPT' a list of results is returned that should inspire reservation at the least to jump on the bandwagon. The fact that Microsoft is considering upping its stake in OpenAI and funding for ChatGPT and similar products and even considering integrating it into Bing and Microsoft Office should be a real cause for concern.
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> I have contacted the EDRI (www.edri.org), and the subject is so new that they have yet to catch up and read up on the latest developments and literature and get feedback from experts form numerous fields.
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