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Ryan Morrison

Wikipedia founder warns against relying on ChatGPT — it makes too many mistakes

Jimmy Wales says ChatGPT isn't useful.

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales told a packed auditorium of tech enthusiasts that ChatGPT makes too many mistakes to be useful. Speaking during the opening night of Web Summit in Portugal, Wales said large language model AI was up to 30 years from being able to compete with humans.

OpenAI launched ChatGPT almost a year ago, and in that time the chatbot has sparked a revolution in the tech sector. Companies like Microsoft and Google have gone all-in on AI and governments are exploring ways to both regulate and utilise its capabilities.

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