The new Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (known as ChatGPT) agreed with our staff at TAB Media Group on three titles when asked about movies and TV shows featuring artificial intelligence taking over the human race.
The number in common advanced to six when I resubmitted the question to ChatGPT with a more generic “AI taking on human qualities” description.
Whether by human recall or from the instantaneous software-generated list (i.e. ChatGPT), it’s obvious how the concept of AI has been envisioned for more than 50 years.
What always seemed like science fiction and never quite a possibility may be on the brink of reality, at least according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
‘It can go quite wrong’
Sitting before a panel of U.S. senators in Washington on May 16, Altman called for urgent regulations and laws to be put in place.
“My worst fear is that we cause significant harm to the world,” he said. “If this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong.”
Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, who helped fund OpenAI, agrees.
“There’s a strong probability it will make life much better and … some chance it goes wrong,” he said. “Hopefully that chance is small, but it’s not zero.”
Experts indicate OpenAI is showing signs of reasoning and say we should move beyond discussions of how to use it in business, education and ministry (see story, page 4).
Concerns are growing because OpenAI can falsify audio and create videos of a person doing or saying something that isn’t really the person being showcased.
OpenAI can write false news articles, undermine the governmental processes we have in place and possibly even start global conflicts.
With voice cloning and deep fake video technology, how can we know for sure something is real if we aren’t actually experiencing the situation firsthand?
OpenAI was released in November 2022 and reportedly already has more than 100 million users. I used it for the first time to create the list shown in the sidebar. It’s a simple and an attractive time-saving tool.
If we aren’t careful, then we’ll let the busyness of life or the lack of understanding prevent us from working diligently and calmly with our congressional delegates on appropriate regulations.
Staff list for AI-related shows
- 2001: A Space Odyssey*
- A.I.
- Blade Runner
- Chappie
- Her
- iRobot
- Lost in Space
- Minority Report
- Robocop
- Short Circuit
- Short Circuit 2
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture
- Star Wars
- Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
- The Six Million Dollar Man
- The Terminator (all six)*
- The Jetsons
- The Matrix*
- The Mitchells vs. the Machines
- Transformers
- WALL-E
- Wreck-It Ralph
* Indicates titles selected by ChatGPT (Compiled by Jennifer D. Rash)
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