Welcome back to Geek Time Advance. This is Brad. Welcome back, Lulu.

Hi, Brad.

So I thought we'd continue on with talking about some of the issues with ChatGPT.

I think in the previous episode, we focus mostly on how great it is, how different it is from some of the earlier chat bots. But there are some really obvious problems. One of the things is, have you read the news about some schools already starting to ban ChatGPT in school, in university, in tests?

One of the issues with ChatGPT is that when you give it a math problem, for example, it can give you the answer, but not only that, it can show you the work for the problem.

So all you have to do is just copy down what it tells you to do. And so you don't even have to go online and find if someone's answered the question before on a database somewhere. Because ChatGPT would work for you.

It's the perfect cheating machine.

Yeah. And you can also use it to write essays; and it goes online and it basically pulls information from all the stuff and then creates an essay for you.

Yeah, actually I watched a short video of a short interview with Chomsky, you know, 乔姆斯基, one of the most famous linguists and linguistic experts in the world.

He basically calls ChatGPT a form of high tech plagiarism.

You could say that.

That's what you're talking about, right？Writing essays, basically I can… as a student or as a researcher, I probably can just lay back enjoy whatever I enjoy and then let ChatGPT write my essay for me.

Exactly. Like people basically can write down information about their own experience. But rather than do that, you can use ChatGPT to go online and just write down other people's experiences for you as if it that your own.

But will you get found out？

Oh, yeah.

You know that some professors or some universities they have developed their programs to check whether you have plagiarized your work or not. 就是那种论文查重的.

What about essays written by AI, by ChatGPT?

They're creating AIs that can detect whether or not an AI took a picture or created a picture, I should say, or wrote an essay. There’re usually telltale signs whether or not something was written by an actual human or written by an AI.

Human beings. Why do we make life so difficult for ourselves？

And yet so easy.

I know. So we created AI technology like ChatGPT to write our essays for us, but then we have to create AI programs that will detect whether the essays are written by AI or not. It's a mouthful.

I'm also worried about the scams.

In deepfakes are a big issue nowadays especially as they get better and better. You could call someone and they could imitate your voice and look like you, and ChatGPT like software can be used to make deepfakes look more realistic.

I've seen some of the deepfake videos that is scary. So guys, if you don't really know what's that like, imagine that they can steal your face or they can create a human being that does not exist, like an expert that actually is not a real human expert, but then using AI technology, using deepfake, this person can look very realistic and they can use your voice as well, use your pattern of speech.

And now that they're using your voice and they're using your patterns of speech. They're coming for your jobs.

That's another concern, isn't it？People like, oh no, ChatGPT is gonna steal our jobs. What do you think？

Right now, ChatGPT is doing some things like editing code and can even write some python code.

So like it's getting kind of crazy what it can do. So it's probably not going to write high level code that people need for bigger programs. But definitely editing code is something that takes a lot of work. And it can help out with that.

It probably can replace certain jobs. I'm not sure if it's completely but like I said earlier, customer service, for example.

Yeah, customer service is a big thing. Data processing is something that's probably going to be going to AI. Like, when someone writes out a piece of paper by hand, right？Someone oftentimes will have to type that out into the computer.

Sometimes when you're moving from one database to another, there's no easy way to do it and people just have to type it out.

But with things like ChatGPT you could scan a piece of paper and then it could just type it all out or convert it to actual computer text.

Do you think like, we are both teaching, do you think that ChatGPT can potentially in the future replace teaching jobs？

I don't know if it could ever replace teaching jobs. I think it could do stuff to help with the learning process. You know, there might be some applications of it to help students who are having issues in the classroom. But I would be tempted to say that there's very small chance that could actually replace a teacher in the classroom.

Yeah, because teaching is kind of like a contact sport. It's a lot of human interactions. There's a lot of things… it’s not just dispensing knowledge.

Because you can just easily get access to sea of knowledge, data online. You don't need teachers. The reason why you need teachers is you need that human contact. I would like to believe that, but then again, maybe in the future they're gonna create robots. That was just like complete, really advanced AI, but we digress.

I think what I was gonna say is like when it comes to jobs like accountants, their jobs be more likely something that AI could take over in the future.

Now one of the main things that accountants can do that computers can't is look up like tax loopholes and things like this.

But if the government starts closing a lot of those loopholes, there's not necessarily going to be a need for a human accountant. Most of that will probably go to a computer. A lot of people in the US just use computer software to do their taxes nowadays anyways.

Yeah, I've heard about that.

Yeah, maybe something. Yeah.

But then again, we're not talking about general AI, because we've done that topic before, maybe we'll revisit that topic in the future.

Let's bring it back to ChatGPT specifically. There's some more specific problems with ChatGPT like you briefly mentioned last time. Because what it can say is it’s still limited to the database it has access to which means when you ask a question that is “超纲” that is out of the realm of its accessible database, then ChatGPT will kind of give you an incorrect answer, but because the way it phrases it, it's gonna sound convincing enough.

Definitely. That's a big problem, especially if you limit the database that it has or the information it has access to, that can make it a problem as well.

But beyond that, something that ChatGPT can be used to do is to actually create misinformation.

So like when you tell it to create a story, you tell it to create a work of fiction, turn that around and rather than tell it to create a work of fiction, tell it to create a story that sounds like a news story that isn't true.

That is scary. Actually, I did not even think in that direction. So it's like ChatGPT write a new story about such and such celebrity or such and such politician, political figures. And that can create huge problems because it will sound very realistic.

Yeah. It's not just that the information isn't available because it's creating new information, it's creating misinformation.

Don't let those 营销号 get their hands on ChatGPT I guess. Yeah. But what about in terms of art？

Yeah, like you can use ChatGPT to create different things like web images. It takes other people's pictures like Dall-E and creates new pictures based on what parameters you give it.

OK. Is that not an infringement on copyright？

It is in a sense; it really depends on where you're at. There's different rules on copyright, like if you look at someone's art and then you create your own art from it, that's one thing.

Whereas like if you were to take someone's art and just like add a few things to it, that’s stealing their art.

But if you look at someone's art and then you make, draw your own picture, that's not considered stealing someone's artwork.

It's considered kind of copying, to some extent, as long as you can tell a difference between their art and your art. But when you have a computer that's going out and just scooping up everyone's art and then generating more art with it, a lot of people are looking that as kind of theft.

Yeah. I mean copyright is another big issue that we're not going to, its very complex. So we have focused in this advanced episode primarily on the problems and the potential concerns that we have about ChatGPT;

and we're gonna end this episode by talking about some specifics like the costs of ChatGPT, like do people have to pay to use ChatGPT right now？

It's in the kind of like an initial testing phase. A lot of the stuff is available for free. There are like Dall-E, there are some pay levels that you can use where you can get access to a much higher version of the AI to create art, but there are free versions.

And they are looking at possibly doing like a monthly fee for ChatGPT in the future. And so there may not be a free version in the future, but right now they do have at least some free versions.

It's still very new, it’s still in like you said in kind of a testing phase. That's why酒馆社群is now using ChatGPT. We call it Mr. know it all, 万事通。

One thing that would be interesting is like, you can use ChatGPT to look for information and basically like if you use just a regular web browser to look up something, you have to sort through all the data to find what you're looking for.

ChatGPT could help you find what you're looking for much more easily. They're thinking about maybe even charging people per search. So that could be something a monthly fee or per search, something like that.

If they charge it per search, then I can't just tease it for fun.

No.

All right. And that ends our advanced episode on ChatGPT. It's a fairly new thing, actually a very, very new thing. If you have any running-s with ChatGPT, if you actually happened to have experienced it, leave us a comment in the comment section; and share with us your concerns about it. Thank you, Brad for coming to the show.

No problem.

We'll see you next time.

See you next time, everyone.