An urgent warning has been issued by tech company Google. As technology moves on another step and millions race to use the latest AI chatbot, a Google boss has spoken out with a warning for users.
Prabhakar Raghavan, senior vice president at Google, shared the urgent warning about ChatGPT. The innovation, which was first launched in November 2022, is, according to Birmingham Live, an advanced AI chatbot trained by OpenAI which interacts in a conversational way.
The alert was first highlighted in German newspaper, Welt Am Sonntag, on Saturday (February 11). Mr Raghavan told the publication: "This type of artificial intelligence we're talking about can sometimes lead to something we call hallucination."
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He went on to explain: "This is then expressed in such a way that a machine delivers a convincing but completely fictitious answer. The huge language models behind this technology make it impossible for humans to monitor every conceivable behaviour of the system."
ChatGPT can almost instantly generate speeches, songs, student essays... a whole host of text that would take humans hours to produce with just a few words or lines of instruction. Elon Musk, who was one of the founders of OpenAI, said previously: "ChatGPT is scary good. We are not far from dangerously strong AI."
Mr Raghavan said during his interview with the German publication: "We want to test it on a large enough scale that in the end we're happy with the metrics we use to check the factuality of the responses. We are considering how we can integrate these options into our search functions, especially for questions to which there is not just a single answer."
He added: "Of course we feel the urgency, but we also feel the great responsibility. We hold ourselves to a very high standard. And it is also my goal to be a leader in chatbots in terms of the integrity of the information but also the responsibilities we take. This is the only way we will be able to keep the trust of the public.”
The AI bot exploded in popularity just after Christmas. At the moment, it is free to use because it is still in its research phase.
Sam Altman, OpenAI chief, in response to Mr Musk's statement, was previously reported as saying: "I agree on being close to dangerously strong AI in the sense of an AI that poses, for example, a huge cybersecurity risk."
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