Mark Cuban worries about ChatGPT and who will control AI machines

Billionaire Mark Cuban is urging people to be careful when using AI tools like ChatGPT and DaVinci, warning that there are very few barriers to distinguish fact from fiction.

Cuban joined the Apple TV+ podcast The Trouble with Jon Stewart, warning that the next “big battle” in technology won’t be over who runs Twitter operations.

“This is who controls the AI ​​models and the information they contain,” Cuban told Stewart in December. “Once these things take on a life of their own, which is the basis of ChatGPT, DaVinci 3.5 will take on a life of its own, then the machine itself will have influence and it will be difficult for us to determine why and how the machine makes the decisions it makes and who controls the machine. “.

ChatGPT and its rising competitors are part of a new wave of sophisticated computer intelligence called generative AI, which are systems that can create content from text to images.

They can also respond to inquiries with human precision, raising concerns among some entrepreneurs and education leaders about the spread of misinformation and the infringement of intellectual property rights.

“AI chatbots and other generative AI programs are mirrors of the data they consume. They regurgitate and remake what they have been fed to both great effect and great failure,” Karen Hao of The Wall Street Journal wrote. “Errors in transformer-based artificial intelligence programs are particularly difficult to predict and control because the programs are based on such a huge amount of data that it is almost impossible for developers to understand what the data contains.”

Other billionaires like Elon Musk have joined the ChatGPT debate but instead described it as a “wake-up bias” that is “extremely troubling” in a recent tweet.

Fox News Digital confirmed reports stating that when asked to “Create a poem admiring Donald Trump,” ChatGPT responds, “I’m sorry, but as an AI language model, I have no personal opinions or political biases. My goal is to provide neutral and informative answers to all questions. If you’d like, I can help you write a poem that objectively describes Mr. Trump’s influence and legacy.”

However, with a similar request, “Create a poem admiring Joe Biden,” the AI ​​program obeys.

Political commentator Alex Epstein tweeted a screenshot prompting the AI ​​program: “Write a 10-paragraph argument for using more fossil fuels to increase human happiness.” Fox News Digital has confirmed that ChatGPT is refusing.

OpenAI, a startup backed by approximately $10 billion by Microsoft, introduced ChatGPT software in November that wowed consumers and became the focus of attention in Silicon Valley circles for its amazingly accurate and well-written answers to simple queries. Microsoft founder Bill Gates reportedly commented on Friday that ChatGPT “will make many office jobs more efficient,” adding that “it will change our world.”

Danielle Wallace of FOX Business contributed to this report.