I am content with the fact I will not be here to see how f’ed up the world gets under this new AI scam. It is still a program, written by humans, so it can be made to “think a certain” way and it will never be sentient.
It’s not a conventional program though. It’s a ‘trained neural network’, and yes, the training can introduce bias.
I use ChatGPT almost every day, especially when I need to express things in a written form. I can prompt it on a topic with details, then ask it to ‘compare and contrast’ items, ‘create an outline’, or ‘summarize the details’, etc.. It’s a ridiculously powerful tool. I can do in hours what would have taken a team days to do.
I’d also argue to ‘never say never’. It’s going to become extremely hard to tell what is sentient or not. I think the barrier is coming up with brand new ideas and truly having self-awareness. But never? AI is akin to the A-Bomb...everyone is racing to be the first to....something - but they don’t even know what. It’s a bit of a frightening concept. To me it’s prophetic.