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2024-10-30
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2023-02-22
Generative AI Ethics in the ChatGPT Moment: A Practical Guide for Builders and Users
ChatGPT reached an estimated 100 million users in two months, Bing's chatbot had to be reined in within ten days, a science fiction magazine closed submissions under a flood of machine-written...
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2022-06-22
Is the Chatbot Sentient? Why LaMDA Is the Wrong Question for AI Ethics
A Google engineer says the company's LaMDA chatbot is sentient; Google and most researchers say it is not. The debate about machine consciousness is fascinating philosophy, but it distracts from...
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2021-09-22
The Ethics of Scale: Stochastic Parrots, Foundation Models and Who Gets to Decide
In 2021, large language models went from research curiosity to product. GPT-3 is available through an API, GitHub Copilot writes code, and Stanford has named the whole category "foundation...