Did Artificial Intelligence Just Get Too Smart?

<p><i>This episode contains strong language.</i><br />In the past few weeks, a major breakthrough in the world of artificial intelligence — ChatGPT — has put extraordinary powers in the hands of anyone with access to the internet.</p><p>Released by OpenAI, a San Francisco-based company, ChatGPT can write essays, come up with scripts for TV shows, answer math questions and even write code.</p><p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/kevin-roose">Kevin Roose</a>, a technology columnist for The New York Times and host of the Times podcast “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/column/hard-fork">Hard Fork</a>.”</p><p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>ChatGPT has<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/05/technology/chatgpt-ai-twitter.html"> inspired awe, fear, stunts and attempts to circumvent its guardrails</a>.</li><li>The chatbot is suddenly everywhere. Who should decide how it’s built? What could go wrong? And what could go right?<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/09/podcasts/can-chatgpt-make-this-podcast.html"> The hosts of the “Hard Fork” discuss</a>.</li></ul><p>For more information on today’s episode, visit <a href="http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily">nytimes.com/thedaily</a>. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. </p>