By ROB WAUGH – ‘The recent exponential growth of AI can be attributed to the wider audience it is now available to. Whilst the technology has existed for a while, its newly available accessibility has allowed results to flourish and the ceiling for what is possible to be raised.

Chatbots will be reluctant to predict a date at which AI would surpass human abilities – or to even discuss harmful outcomes caused by AI.

Instead, all three bots give what seem to be pre-programmed answers where they explain how they cannot predict the future and that the timeline around AI surpassing human beings is a matter for discussion.

This is because the chatbots are carefully trained and equipped with ‘guard rails’. This is to protect against giving alarming advice — such as how to self-harm or buy unregistered guns.

This is why bots such as ChatGPT are prone to ‘woke’ pronouncements on gender issues and other political topics – as they are carefully trained to avoid giving controversial answers.

To get around their reluctance to speak about AI surpassing human beings, we asked the bots to imagine they were science fiction or speculative fiction writers and come up with ‘realistic’ scenarios.   Read On: