AI and the future of humanity: ChatGPT-4, philosophy and education – Critical responses

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Notes

Notes

1 https://www.reuters.com/technology/chatgpt-sets-record-fastest-growing-user-base-analyst-note-2023-02-01/

2 https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-creator-openai-talks-for-tender-offer-at-29-billion-2023-1

3 The new leadership team is given at https://openai.com/blog/leadership-team-update

4 See the interview - Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #367, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Guz73e6fw

5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Azure

6 https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/

7 https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-google-ai-search-updates/

8 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/02/24/china-baidu-ernie-chatbot-chatgpt/

9 https://www.synthesia.io/glossary/video-chatbot

10 As a philosophical position, voluntarism assigns higher importance to the will rather than to the intellect. From such a prism, the voluntaristic tone of the 3 bullet points strikes a somewhat ironic note in a text on (super)intelligence.

11 Interestingly, the technological superlative deep-down requires the political comparative. Also, where the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ are clear-cut, there also come the ‘goodies’ and the ‘baddies’.

12 Learning Analytics: US Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences: “The Assess-as-You-Go Writing Assistant” (R305A090394); “Assessing Complex Performance” (R305B110008); “u-Learn.net: An Anywhere/Anytime Formative Assessment and Learning Feedback Environment” (ED-IES-10-C-0018); “The Learning Element” (ED-IES-lO-C-0021); and “InfoWriter: A Student Feedback and Formative Assessment Environment” (ED-IES-13-C-0039). Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: “Scholar Literacy Courseware.” National Science Foundation: “Assessing ‘Complex Epistemic Performance’ in Online Learning Environments” (Award 1629161). Cybersecurity: Utilizing an Academic Hub and Spoke Model to Create a National Network of Cybersecurity Institutes, Department of Homeland Security, contract 70RCSA20FR0000103; Infrastructure for Modern Educational Delivery Technologies: A Study for a Nationwide Law Enforcement Training Infrastructure, Department of Homeland Security, contract 15STCIR00001-05-03; Development of a Robust, Nationally Accessible Cybersecurity Risk Management Curriculum for Technical and Managerial Cybersecurity Professionals, Department of Homeland Security, contract 70SAT21G00000012/70RCSA21FR0000115. Medical Informatics: MedLang: A Semantic Awareness Tool in Support of Medical Case Documentation, Jump ARCHES program, Health Care Engineering Systems Center, College of Engineering, contracts P179, P279, P288.

13 Indeed, one wonders whether the title of this generative AI could be translated in light of Heidegger’s das Gerede: thus, ‘IdleChatGPT’.

14 https://www.reuters.com/technology/chatgpt-sets-record-fastest-growing-user-base-analyst-note-2023-02-01/

15 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131857.2022.2085554

16 https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ai-chatbots-naive-idiots-no-sense-of-irony-by-slavoj-zizek-2023-03

17 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opinion/noam-chomsky-chatgpt-ai.html