Hot startup OpenAI on Wednesday began a waitlist for a professional and paid version of its software ChatGPT, which has spurred discussion about artificial intelligence and the future of employment. OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman previewed a forthcoming version of ChatGPT “geared for professional usage” as media rumours circulated that Microsoft intended to spend $10 billion in the business.
Microsoft, which develops its own Cortana digital assistant, refused to comment.
“Working on a professional version of ChatGPT; will give greater limits and quicker performance,” Brockman wrote in a tweet.
OpenAI late last year introduced its free version of the ChatGPT chatbot that is capable of answering questions so effectively that it revived the discussion on concerns associated to artificial intelligence (AI) technology. ChatGPT has also generated fears it may be used by students for homework projects or to replace writers or others with writing tasks.
The professional model will come with a price and be speedier than the free version, which will remain accessible, the business stated. A waiting list website asked individuals what pricing they thought would be too high, too cheap, and just right for ChatGPT and how unhappy they would be if they could no longer use the chatbot.
“If you are picked, we’ll contact out to you to set up a payment procedure and a pilot,” the website added.
“Please bear in mind that this is an early experimental software that is susceptible to modification.”
Claude de Loupy, president of Syllabs, a French business specialising in automated text production, claimed “ChatGPT’s reaction may be off the mark,” but that its overall performance remained “very excellent.”
Conversations with the chatbot, broadcast online by intrigued people, depict a type of omniscient machine that is capable of teaching scientific topics or scripting scenes for a play or even lines of computer code. Its degree of intelligence both intrigues and alarms some observers, who express fear these technologies may be exploited to fool people, by distributing incorrect information or by constructing more plausible schemes.
Asked about these hazards, a statement from ChatGPT indicated that human-like chatbots might be deadly if overused.
“There are potential concerns in constructing very smart chatbots, especially if they are meant to be indistinguishable from people in their language and conduct,” the chatbot told AFP.
On its welcome page, OpenAI sets out warnings, noting the chatbot “may sometimes create inaccurate information” or “provide damaging instructions or biassed material.” OpenAI, cofounded in 2015 in San Francisco by billionaire tech magnate Elon Musk, who left the firm in 2018, earned $1 billion from Microsoft in 2019.
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