Guest opinion: I wasn’t worried about ChatGPT until I tried ChatGPT
by Jared Whitley
Of all the anxieties surrounding artificial intelligence, the biggest one is disastrous military applications. Technophobes have referenced The Terminator’s Skynet as the endgame for AI, particularly now with the power of the new ChatGPT chatbot, which is scaring everyone on the planet.
Created by San Francisco-based company OpenAI, the prototype has grabbed enormous attention, with applications including data science, college essays, and even formulaic screenplays. With some demanding government regulation, reaction to ChatGPT has been much stronger than to OpenAI’s art program Dall-E earlier this year.
How the same company could come up with something as clever as Dall-E – a portmanteau of Wall-E and Salvador Dalí – and as muddled as “ChatGPT” – short for Generative Pre-trained Transformer – is somewhat baffling. The cleverness of Google is it’s both a noun and a verb, so people say they’ll “google” something, even when using a different search engine.
But it will be small comfort indeed to Google’s leadership if people refer to “googling” when they look for stuff with ChatGPT. And if Google CEO Sundar Pichai is as scared as recent headlines make him out to be, then I certainly should be. So, I turned to the only source I trust enough to waylay my concerns.
ChatGPT itself. (Read More)
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WGU welcomes Roy Bosch as strategic partnerships manager to increase equity in Utah’s higher education
Western Governors University (WGU) has named Roy Bosch as the strategic partnerships manager to increase equity in higher education among underserved populations in Utah.
In this position, Bosch launches relationships with organizations to raise awareness about the opportunities available to people looking to further their education and skillsets. Through his initiatives, Bosch identifies the needs of the state and its workforce to help guide the right people to the right positions. Specifically, his associations with the Hispanic and Venezuelan communities allow Bosch to help new Americans establish successful lives in Utah. (Read More)