If science is supposed to be the pursuit of truth, there might be something decidedly unscientific, and possibly even dangerous, about the commercialization of artificial intelligence over the past several months, according to a top A.I. expert.
OpenAI may have let the A.I. genie out of the bottle in November when it released ChatGPT, a chatbot based on the start-up’s groundbreaking generative A.I. system. Tech giants including Microsoft and Google have since piled into the race, fast-tracking development of their own A.I. products, some of which have already been released.
