The technology behind ChatGPT has become a benchmark for industry giants, and many are watching it closely. Steve Wozniakco-founder of Apple, is one of those who keeps his distance from this innovation and considers that it can “make mistakes”.
In conversation with CNBC, the mythical “Woz” pointed out that the impact of this new trend is undeniable, but he has some reservations: “The problem is that it does good things for us, but it can make horrible mistakes by not knowing what humanity is.” he warned.
Today, generative artificial intelligence is part of a growth scheme at companies the size of Google, Microsoft, Meta, Baidu, Alibaba and other technology companies.
GPT-3 and a possible bias
In the case of conversational AI, Steve Wozniak believes there are concerns about “terrible mistakes” that could be made with this advance.
“The problem is that it does good things for us, but it can make horrible mistakes by not knowing what humanity is.” he noted. “It’s like you’re driving a car, and you know what other cars might be about to do right now because you know the humans.”
Wozniak is not far from the facts with this statement. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, acknowledged that ChatGPT have certain “deficiencies around bias,” the same bias that is often fueled by users interacting with this technology and adding messages geared toward racism, sexism or other social bias.
Wozniak: “the computer will never be equal to the brain”.
In the interview, the engineer pointed out that much of the behavior of the human brain has yet to be investigated enough to think that an AI can be anywhere near the level of human processing. “After studying computational brains, you realize that computers will never match the brain. We don’t yet know how our brains are wired, or where memories are stored.”
For Wozniak, ChatGPT will be beneficial to humans, as will much of the research devoted to this new technology. “It will definitely be useful for humans. All AI technology is on the high end. No human being could come close to memorizing what AI can.” remarked Steve Jobs’ partner during Apple’s early years.
