There has been a lot of debate recently about artificial intelligence with the launch of ChatGPT, Silicon Valley’s latest technology darling. To call ChatGPT “intelligent” is misleading, as it has no actual intelligence.
Technology like ChatGPT is trained to generate information by ingesting enormous data sets and generating sentences based on that data. It is subject to the biases of both the data it ingests and the programmers who train it. It can mimic different writing styles and be forced to ignore taboo or “hateful” subjects its designers program it to avoid. Think of it more as a Google search and Wikipedia on steroids than a Terminator-esq sentient AI.