ChatGPT is a big hit! Is it really that amazing? Who do you think wrote this article?

Recently, two artificial intelligence systems have become extremely popular and have become the focus of many netizens. One is the ruthless "protagonist behind the scenes" MOSS, and the other is the versatile "all-round netizen" ChatGPT.

Let's talk about MOSS first. During the Spring Festival this year, the science fiction movie "The Wandering Earth 2" was a hit, and an interview session in the movie was very impressive. Liu Peiqiang, played by actor Wu Jing, interviewed astronauts on the space station to obtain the qualification to let his family take refuge in the underground city. The person interviewing him was not a person, but an artificial intelligence system MOSS (also called "550W" in the movie) that has undergone multiple iterations and has self-awareness . When a red dot camera swept Liu Peiqiang lightly, his family situation and difficult choices, as well as the remaining days of his wife's life, were calculated clearly, and even provided Liu Peiqiang with the so-called "best choice". During the interview, MOSS's calm and sharp questions, rational and quick responses, once caused Liu Peiqiang to collapse emotionally, and the audience also sweated for him.

The recently popular ChatGPT is a new chatbot model developed by OpenAI, an American artificial intelligence research laboratory. It can conduct conversations by learning and understanding human language, interact based on the context of the chat, and assist humans in completing a series of tasks.

This AI language model makes it easy to write emails, papers, scripts, develop business proposals, create poems and stories, and even type code and check program errors.

Many netizens who have "chatted" with ChatGPT have exclaimed, "There is nothing ChatGPT can't do, except what you can't think of." Only two months after its launch, the number of active users of ChatGPT exceeded 100 million.

Is ChatGPT really that reliable?

AI interviews, AI chats, AI paintings... With AIGC (using artificial intelligence technology to generate content) being used efficiently as a tool in work and life, will interviewers, writers, designers... lose their jobs? What attitude should we take towards this technological innovation?

With these questions and curiosity, let’s meet this “all-round netizen” to see what his answer is.

During the chat, ChatGPT's "self-introduction" was very frank: it could remember earlier conversations and correct its answers based on user prompts, but it would occasionally make mistakes, and the real-time performance of the database needed to be considered.

When chatting with ChatGPT, you can get straight to the point, or you can go from the shallow to the deep, from the surface to the inside.

When asked about some serious topics and solutions, ChatGPT's answers were logically reasonable and well-worded. Although it did not put forward any views beyond the old clichés, its clear, intuitive and quick expression and response process were amazing.

ChatGPT automates tedious and time-consuming tasks, freeing humans to focus on more critical tasks. It can also generate original content and ideas, and help research and develop new products and services.

Its outstanding performance is very attractive to companies and individuals who want to use AI capabilities without paying extra. However, in the eyes of many scholars and creators, "ChatGPT is fun, but it is not the author", and there are still many controversial topics such as academic concerns, copyright and authorship issues behind AIGC.

The Paris Institute of Political Studies in France recently announced a ban on the use of ChatGPT and all other AI-based tools for learning and exam tasks. Miriam, director of academic affairs at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, said in an interview that ChatGPT gives people the illusion that the text is written by humans, and for students, using this tool cannot guarantee their intellectual and research honesty.

While these “know-it-all” and “can-do-everything” robots shock us, what thoughts and inspirations do they also provide?

In the movie "The Wandering Earth 2", Liu Peiqiang faced MOSS's tentative soul-searching question, "Can humans survive?" "The fate of civilization depends on human choices," this was MOSS's answer.

Whether we are facing disasters or the challenges and impacts of new technologies, the solutions we choose to deal with them will lead to different directions and results.

When the popularity of photography technology put great pressure on portrait painters, some chose to give up painting, some chose to start a new business, and some insisted on painting. As a result, various art schools flourished and the art market developed unprecedentedly. As ChatGPT said in his answer, instead of worrying about your job being replaced by AI, it is better to give full play to your subjective initiative and creativity and make good use of new technologies and tools to improve work efficiency and quality of life. After all, artificial intelligence is an extension of human beings, and the real protagonist of society is you.

Of course, technological innovation cannot be separated from the constraints of laws and regulations . We cannot allow science and technology to "soar" all the way. We must uphold ethical and legal bottom lines and protect the hard work of every creator. Only in this way can we form a positive interaction and promote the development of artificial intelligence.

Looking around the world, AIGC is entering a period of rise, and emerging markets are waiting to be developed. What role does China play?

We are beneficiaries and learners. ChatGPT has become popular, and many practitioners in the domestic artificial intelligence industry feel mixed emotions. From the scale of the model to the effect, the gap between China and the United States in technology is still relatively large. Compared with OpenAI's large-scale investment when there is no prospect and no obvious effect, we prefer to quickly follow and iterate after the technology has a breakthrough. We already have the belief and determination to innovate technology, and we need more courage to explore the unknown and face failure.

On the 7th, Baidu officially announced the ChatGPT-like project "ERNIE Bot". Baidu's digital human family Xi Jiajia, Du Xiaoxiao, Ye Youyou, and Lin Kaikai became responsible editors. Many netizens expressed their great expectations, "I believe that China will do better and better in this field."

At the 2022 World Artificial Intelligence Conference Industry Development Plenary Session, Yu Xiaohui, President of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, introduced that the scale of the global artificial intelligence industry reached US$361.9 billion in 2021, of which China accounted for RMB 404.1 billion. In terms of investment and financing scale, the global artificial intelligence industry investment and financing amounted to US$71.47 billion in 2021, a year-on-year increase of 90.2%, and China's was US$20.12 billion, a year-on-year increase of 40.4%.

The new generation of artificial intelligence is the driving force for the leapfrog development of science and technology, the optimization and upgrading of industries, and the overall leap in productivity. With the country's continued and stable investment in the artificial intelligence industry, we must have more confidence and courage to become creators in it, break through key technologies, seize the commanding heights of innovation, and open up a larger market.

Source: "Youth Beijing" WeChat official account