Google has issued an urgent warning to millions of people around the world who rushed to use ChatGPT. The AI platform won over 100 million users within the first three months of going live with Google now telling users to be “very careful.”
“This type of artificial intelligence we’re talking about can sometimes lead to something we call hallucination. This is then expressed in such a way that a machine delivers a convincing but completely fictitious answer,” said Google boss Prabhakar Raghavan.
According to the Google boss, the huge language models behind ChatGPT technology make it impossible for humans to monitor every conceivable behavior of the system. “But we want to test it on a large enough scale that in the end, we’re happy with the metrics we use to check the factuality of the responses.”
He said Google was working towards integrating the capabilities of ChatGPT into its search systems “but we also feel the great responsibility. We hold ourselves to a very high standard. And it is also my goal to be a leader in chatbots in terms of the integrity of the information but also the responsibilities we take.”
ChatGPT took over the world of AI by storm. The platform is said to have provided correct answers to various high-end exams including law and medicine in the United States of America. There are worries that if fully exploited, the platform might replace millions of jobs in the creative industry.
According to an expert from Sophos, as machine intelligence continues to advance, the work of separating fact from fiction will continue to get more and more difficult. We will need to be sure we build systems that are flexible enough to combat these messages, but also educate our staff on their need to take additional steps when receiving sensitive requests over email.
