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Special Edition: AI Chatbots May Change Everything

The NewsWorthy

Erica Mandy

News, Daily News, Society & Culture

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

It seems everyone is talking about the artificial intelligence chatbot Chat GPT. It launched a few months ago and versions of it are now being used by companies like Microsoft and Snapchat. Other companies and individuals all over the world are figuring out if, how and when to incorporate this type of tech into what they do.

What does all this mean for us now and in the future? Today, we're talking about how the chatbots actually work,  why there have been reports of very strange responses, and how this technology could be used later on for convenience and productivity – or – destruction and, not to be dramatic, but… the downfall of society.

Here to explain it all is award-winning computer scientist: Kentaro Toyama. He is the W.K.  Kellogg Professor of Community Information at the University of Michigan School of Information, a fellow of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT, and author of "Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology." One of his research focuses is human-computer interaction.

Kentaro Toyama's published research 

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0:00.0

Today is Saturday, March 4th.

0:02.4

It seems everyone is talking about the artificial intelligence chatbot chatGPT.

0:07.0

It's certainly shown up in our own daily news episodes quite a bit lately.

0:10.2

And for good reason, it may be a technology that will change all of our daily lives eventually.

0:15.2

Some experts are calling AI the next revolutionary tech since the internet or iPhone.

0:19.8

And already it's evolving quickly.

0:21.8

ChatGPT just launched a few months ago, and versions of it are now being used by companies

0:25.4

like Microsoft and Snapchat.

0:27.6

Other companies and individuals all over the world are figuring out if, how and when

0:31.4

to incorporate this type of tech into what they do, despite its current even bizarre flaws.

0:37.0

So what does all this mean for us now and in the future?

0:40.9

Today, we're talking about how the chatbots actually work, why there have been reports

0:44.8

of very strange, sometimes scary, responses, and how this technology could be used later

0:50.0

on, for convenience and productivity, or destruction, and not to be dramatic, but the downfall

0:56.4

of society.

0:57.8

Here to explain it all is award-winning computer scientist Contaro Toyama.

1:01.5

He's a WK Kellogg professor of community information at the University of Michigan School

1:05.5

of Information, a fellow of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values

1:09.7

at MIT, an author of Geek Heresy, rescuing social change from the cult of technology.

1:15.6

One of his research focuses is human computer interaction.

1:19.2

So here's our conversation about the impact of AI.

1:24.5

Welcome, welcome to the Newsworthy Special Edition Saturday, when we sit down with a different

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