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🔥 Before we start, do not miss the most important AI developments from the past few days, curated and commented on by me:
ChatGPT's shocking stats: OpenAI revealed that 0.15% of ChatGPT users (a staggering 1.2 million people) have conversations that might indicate suicidal planning or intent. The numbers are alarming, and so is the lack of regulatory oversight.
OpenAI’s new ‘browser’: ChatGPT Atlas represents one more step in OpenAI’s ambitious mission to control how people find information, interact with it, and shape their lives. Will they manage to? Also, many are highlighting the vulnerabilities and risks of the ‘browser.’
AI to personalize ads: Meta will use your interactions with AI to suggest posts and personalize ads, and it is much more manipulative than you might think.
Prohibition of superintelligence: Almost 30,000 people have already signed a statement calling for a prohibition on the development of “superintelligence” until two conditions are met. You can sign it here.
Ohio wants to ban marriage with AI: Most people don’t know it, but the bill actually makes sense, as there are people “marrying” AI chatbots. This is an emerging legal area, and there will likely be more places proposing similar laws.
People are concerned about AI: According to the Pew Research Center, more are concerned than excited about AI use, and more trust their own country and the EU to regulate it than they trust the U.S. or China.
AI therapy vs. ethics [paper]: “Reducing psychotherapy - a deeply meaningful and relational process - to a language generation task can have serious and harmful implications in practice.”
Robot commander: Elon Musk made it clear that he wants to have a strong influence over the AI robot army he is building.
AI and us are not the same: Why Ilya Sutskever is wrong to call AI a “digital brain,” somehow equivalent to the human biological brain.
AI cannot replace all jobs: Last week, Elon Musk said that AI and robots would replace all jobs. Here are four arguments explaining why Musk is wrong.
The rise of PhDs: My unpopular prediction is that the rise of AI will lead more people to pursue a PhD.
The AI Paradigm Shift
Next month marks the third anniversary of the generative AI wave, and as it reaches its second phase, the AI paradigm shift has become clearer.
I am not talking about a specific technological breakthrough in AI or assuming that LLMs will help to discover the cure for cancer. It is also not related to a scientific revolution, as Thomas Kuhn described it.
Instead, I am referring to the factors that have already led to meaningful changes in the way hundreds of millions of people deal with work, learning, language, creative expression, and their sense of worth as humans.
We are still trying to understand how and to what extent people’s lives and society are being transformed, and whether the potential benefits outweigh the negative implications. But it seems that there is no way back:
The paradigm shift I am describing here has three main sets of factors behind it: technological, economic, and social/cultural.
When analyzing the synergetic impact of these factors, the outcome has been significant, leading to changes in the way hundreds of millions of people live, work, create, and understand themselves: