Father Of Internet Has This Warning For AI Investors

Last Update: February 17, 2023, 09:00 IST

AI has become a big deal these days

AI has become a big deal these days

AI tech has become a hot topic again, thanks to products like ChatGPT and Bard.

The “father of the Internet” and Google’s “Internet evangelist” Vint Cerf has warned businesses not to rush into making money from conversational AI because it’s really cool, reports CNBC. The warning comes amid the rise in popularity of ChatGPT.

Cerf was quoted as saying, “There is a moral issue here, I hope some of you will consider it.” It doesn’t always work out the way we want”.

An important warning from them comes as major tech companies like Google, Microsoft and Meta struggle to stay competitive in the conversational AI space while rapidly improving a technology that still makes mistakes. Are.

The report further added that he warned against the temptation to invest just because a technology is “really good, even if it doesn’t work quite right all the time.” It’s a hot topic and everyone will throw money at me’, don’t do it,” Cerf said.

“Be thoughtful. You were right that we can’t always predict what’s going to happen with these technologies and, to be honest with you, most of the problem is people – that’s why we haven’t been in the last 400 years have changed, let alone 4,000,” he said.

“They will want to do what is to their advantage and not yours. So we have to remember that and think about how we use these techniques.”

Furthermore, he gave an example in which he asked a chatbot to provide a biography about itself.

The report states that Cerf claimed that the bot presented his response as factual despite the inaccuracies.

“On the engineering side, I think engineers like me should be responsible for trying to find a way to tame some of these technologies so that they are less likely to cause harm,” he said.

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