I read a fascinating article in the Independent this morning that indicates just how disruptive this technology could be: ChatGPT passes MBA final exam at Wharton School of Business (research study, final paper in preparation), second, Harvard researchers find ChatGPT could pass the US Medical licensing exam (it performed at or near the passing level for all 3 finals). Of course, egregious errors were found in both sets of exams, but ChatGPT is barely out of the box (so to speak). It remains to be seen just how long it will take to mature but if I had to guess, I would say your next business consultant or GP (a few years from now) could well be a chatbot.
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/chatgpt-mba-exam-wharton-professor-b2267919.html <https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/chatgpt-mba-exam-wharton-professor-b2267919.html> Can we do it without bloodshed, or does this just nudge the doomsday clock forward a few more seconds? Let's hope we can. Laws and politicians will have to respond quickly to what can and cannot be done using this new technology, but who polices the politicians? Corruption and the abuse of power is not changed by the presence of this new kid on the block. It will be a race to see who or what can evolve more quickly; the tech or the societies that built it. Or will the tech help us to become better human beings; ones more capable of compassion, concern and understanding? Mark > On 25 Jan 2023, at 8:59 pm, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Bob Sneidar wrote: > > > If we get to the point where mankind no longer has to work > > to live (universal basic income), then I fear we will come > > to experience intimately what the old saying hints at, "An > > idle mind is the devil's playground." > > You'd be in good company. Camus, Sartre, and others in the middle of the last > century about how the newfound leisure ultimately borne of the productivity > gains of the Industrial Revolution might become the greatest crisis mankind > faces. > > Prone as I am to myopic projection, I'm not so sure. If we find the tedious > work of providing basis essentials delivered by machines, I believe we'd find > new and more interesting things to do. > > I've enjoyed the rhythmic calisthenics of digging ditches, and the > back-to-nature connectedness of farming. But TBH for all those jobs taught me > I find designing board games more fascinating. > > > > It will be the end of any really productive society. > > Art isn't "productive", but I'm glad people do it. > > And at the moment the only way to stop it is to try to shut the machines down > by throwing a shoe into their gears (the legendary etymology of "saboteur"). > > With automation resulting in widespread permanent unemployment, folks will be > idle either way. > > The only question is whether we want to see the masses thriving, or living in > a cardboard box under a freeway no longer driven by anyone but the owners of > the machines. > > I prefer thriving. > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
