2023: ChatGPT, DALL-E and the future of humanity
Published on January 10, 2023
The rise of ChatGPT and DALL-E, both OpenAI tools in California, have led people to ask what makes us unique as humans, and how we differ from technology.
Pablo A. Ruz Salmones – CEO, X eleva Group
Among all the controversies that abound on the internet, the most recurring undoubtedly revolves around Artificial Intelligence. From whether computers would be able to create art or whether computers would be able to think; We have even questioned whether people would be able to “pray to a robot.”
Surprising as it may seem, those very questions have proved prescient.
ChatGPT
ChatGPT is a tool capable of writing essays, articles, poems and basically whatever you want, in a matter of seconds, and having an almost human conversation with anyone. Many have even dared to say that it is the end of Google.
X Eleva Group undertook the task of interacting with this program through the question: Are machines better than humans? And this was the response and result of the interaction:
– ChatGPT: “It depends on the task at hand. In some areas, machines are already better than humans. For example, computers can perform calculations and process information much faster and more accurately than humans can. In other areas, such as in understanding natural language or recognizing emotions, machines are still not as good as humans. Additionally, machines do not have consciousness, self-awareness, emotions, and many other qualities that make humans unique.”
DALL-E
Dall-E, on the other hand, lets you enter a string of text and will transform that into a digital painting, any author’s style. For example, you can tell it “Artificial Intelligence Destroying Humanity” or “Eiffel Tower in the style of Rembrandt” and it will generate an image.
The fact that computers are capable of imitating art has led many opinions of important figures in the art world to rise up against this phenomenon. For example, Guillermo del Toro and Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli (creator of Spirited Away and countless other animated films) have called it “an insult to life itself.” Furthermore, platforms like DeviantArt and ArtStation have already cracked down on AI-generated art.
How to analyze these phenomena?
The angles from which the rise of tools such as ChatGPT and Dall-ee can be analyzed is almost endless. It is better to look at the type of questions, which must be relevant enough, in order to build a good analysis. For example:
- Will ChatGPT put journalists and essayists out of work?
- Will Dall-ee kill off all digital illustrators?
- What about copyright laws? That is, a computer that was trained with millions of images of other artists and then “copy” those artists, is it violating copyright?
- Will these tools have to be regulated? For example, ChatGPT is particularly prone to making false claims, to “lying”. This has to do with the probabilistic functioning that it has, and with the fact that it is incapable of “understanding” the texts it writes.
Using a more subjective perspective, two of the obligatory questions would be: How do you want technology to serve you? And do you think it should have limits? if so, which ones?
By way of conclusion, at X Eleva Group we know that, despite having acute expertise in technology and Artificial Intelligence, the future cannot be predicted.
However, from a more humane and rational point of view, we could be guided by the following phrase attributed to one of the most important figures in the history of the United States (although surely said by many other thinkers as well), Abraham Lincoln: “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
And finally, with all the commotion of the prophetic that these new programs appear to be, you will have to remember that phrase in the Gospel according to Saint Matthew (but applied to a human-computer context): “For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.”
Computers are not humans, and nothing is more important than a person. That truth places the future in our hands, to take its reins to create it in our favor.
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