I'm Alan Olga and this is Clear In Vivid. Conversations about connecting and communicating.

I call it AI Whisper. There are some people who can whisper to the AI and have it produce

what they want. And you and I, when we go there, you'll put in something to GPT-3 and

it'll be okay, but it's not going to be like super great to get something outside of

that pattern completely. It's very difficult to do and this is one of the reasons why I don't

think humans are going to lose their jobs is that if you see some of the people who are

making some of the best stuff that GPT-3, it takes a thousand hours.

That's Kevin Kelly. He's been an astute observer of the tech scene since he co-founded the

first online community back in the 1980s. So we turned to him to help me understand the sudden

obsession that many people have with chatbots and I include myself among the obsessed.

Chatbots are those eerily realistic conversation partners that are generated by artificial

intelligence. How do they do it and should we be excited about their potential or scared?

This is really going to be interesting to me because like millions of others around the world,

I've been absorbed in the new chatbot chat GPT. It's addictive because you don't know how it could

possibly be giving you conversational answers so quickly. Within seconds, how does it do that?

It's mostly pattern recognition. It's studied, been trained on, millions of other bits of writing

the humans have done and so when it's asked to do something, it's giving a pattern around a certain

set of information or facts. It's sort of like someone who's really, really good at ad living

things that they don't and talking about things that they really don't understand. You can kind

of nod your head. It's very akin to that so it doesn't really understand what it's saying,

but it's so good at mimicking the patterns that is good enough. This is crushing. I've been a chat

bot all my life. You have and some people are better at it than others. You know, we're all curious

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