I;m not really seeing this. All other massively powerful advancements in technology solved unique problems. What problem does this solve? Cheating on exams?
Supposedly this will eliminate drudge work and allow us to only do interesting work.
Do you program? If so, ask ChatGPT to write a simple Python routine for you.
I use Excel to analyze stock performances. The other day I was wondering which 5 stocks in the NASDAQ 100 (if combined into a single portfolio) would produce the highest return over the last 5 years. I wanted a routine in VBA--Visual Basics for Applications--that would allow the number of years to be a variable.
I have access to all the NASDAQ 100 historic stock prices (free to the public at the NASDAQ site).
It took me several tries to get the question right (questions are called "prompts"), but as I kept working at it, the chatbot produced better and better programs. After a while (about 25 minutes), it gave me an equation/formula that worked like a charm.
This is one way AI is useful. From this you can see the potential.
Last month, a friend (female) that I work out with complained about what she thought was a heat rash under her sports bra. She also said her ribs hurt in the area of the rash.
I suggested she ask ChatGPT for a diagnosis and provide it with her various symptoms.
ChatGPT's response was shingles. It suggested she make an appointment with her doctor ASAP.
She went to see her doctor that very afternoon.
Her doctor' diagnosis: Shingles. She got a shot of an anti-viral medication and her condition slowly improved.
I will post two articles for you, one that shows in a matter of days AI solved a protein molecule problem over one weekend that had been worked on for over 50 years in labs. This would be an example of AI solving a protein problem that could lead to great advancements in medicine.
The 2nd article is the potential to do great harm for something that could be used to wipe out entire populations. The experiment was to see what AI could provide in terms of biological weapons. In less than 6 hours an AI model suggested 40,000 new and deadly toxins, most have never been considered by humans.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/17/22983197/ai-new-possible-chemical-weapons-generative-models-vx
The other thing to consider is AI models today are still in their infancy, the models are using very powerful neural networks to process mass amounts of information. If Quantum Computing every fulfills its potential, combined with AI models that have been created for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), then you will have a power that is hard to imagine.
-”What problem does this solve?” -
Maybe it will answer the ultimate question:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aboZctrHfK8