In an interview with ABC News, OpenAI (maker of ChatGPT) CEO Sam Altman says AI will reshape society, acknowledges risks: ‘A little bit scared of this’.\u00a0 “Hal, open the pod bay doors….”<\/p>\n
BY <\/span>PRARTHANA PRAKASH<\/a><\/span> – The launch of artificial intelligence-powered ChatGPT<\/strong>\u00a0late last year<\/a>\u00a0has set off an A.I. race.\u00a0Microsoft<\/a>\u00a0has invested billions into OpenAI, the company that created the chatbot, and other tech giants like\u00a0Google<\/a>\u00a0and Meta are rushing to catch up.<\/p>\n The rapid pace at which technology like ChatGPT<\/strong> is developing and becoming embedded with people\u2019s lives could be another \u201ciPhone moment,\u201d\u00a0Bank of America<\/a>\u00a0analysts wrote in a research note on Tuesday. Just as the iPhone led to an explosion in the use of smartphones and phone apps, ChatGPT<\/strong>-like technology is revolutionizing A.I., the bank said in a note on Tuesday.<\/p>\n \u201cThe adoption rate of this technology is so far unprecedented,\u201d said Haim Israel, a global strategist at Bank of America who coauthored the note. \u201cAnd, in the same time, the abilities of A.I. large language models, like ChatGPT<\/strong> is developing in warp-speed\u2014jumping 1,900 times in size in less than 4 years, and [it] could jump a further 10-fold or more in just couple of months.\u201d<\/p>\n The report cited four reasons why ChatGPT<\/strong>-like technology is pushing A.I. forward: It\u2019s democratizing data by making it more available; being adopted by a large number of people; spurred technological development at \u201cwarp speed\u201d; and has numerous use cases.<\/p>\n ChatGPT<\/strong> has gained huge momentum with people who use it to do everything from\u00a0craft beer recipes<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0write speeches<\/a>. The report found that on average, 53% more people were discussing ChatGPT<\/strong> on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0compared to a topic like inflation since the tool was launched in November. ChatGPT<\/strong> attracted one million users within five days of it being introduced compared to TikTok, which took 14 days to achieve the same.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are at a defining moment\u2014like the internet in the \u201990s\u2014where Artificial Intelligence (AI) is moving towards mass adoption, with large language models like ChatGPT<\/strong> finally enabling us to fully capitalize on the data revolution,\u201d the report said.\u00a0\u00a0Read On:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"