ChatGPT was recognized as one of the biggest technological innovations of 2022 after its release last November. A powerful artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot can generate text on almost any topic, from a Shakespearean sonnet reinterpreted in the style of Megan Thee Stallion to complex mathematical theorems described in language that a 5-year-old can understand. In the first week of operation, it was visited by more than a million users.
ChatGPT’s developer, OpenAI, is currently in talks with investors to raise $29 billion, including a potential $10 billion investment from Microsoft. That would make OpenAI, founded in San Francisco in 2015 to build super-intelligent machines, one of the world’s most valuable AI companies.
But the success story is not only the merit of Silicon Valley geniuses. In its quest to make ChatGPT less toxic, OpenAI used outsourced Kenyan workers earning as little as $2 an hour as Time‘s investigation revealed.
This work was vital to OpenAI. ChatGPT’s predecessor, GPT-3, had already demonstrated an exceptional ability to string sentences together. But it was a hard sell because the app also had a propensity for violent, sexist and racist language. This is explained by the fact that the AI was trained on hundreds of billions of words scraped from the Internet – the largest repository of human language.
This massive training data set is the reason for GPT-3’s amazing linguistic abilities, but also perhaps its greatest curse. Because some parts of...
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