ChatGPT - A double-edged sword in the era of AI technology

The most cutting-edge technology currently is undoubtedly ChatGPT, which has attracted widespread attention. Although it has not been around for long, its rapid technological updates and integration with various software are astonishing. With the development of more and more new technologies, the wave of AI technology is rapidly approaching us.
When Google's new product shone at the IO conference, everyone was testing the ChatGPT app on their phones, and Microsoft threw us a series of heavy bombs - Windows' AI integration, Copilot assistant that runs through the entire operating system, plugins that can freely call various functions, and even up to 50.

The era of 'Iron Man' for everyone

The dazzling array of AI products makes it possible for every ordinary person to enter the era of 'Iron Man'.

Imagine this: every morning, an AI bed will wake you up at the wake-up time set the previous day, and then the AI speaker will report your daily schedule to you. The AI breakfast machine that has been pre-set will prepare a scientifically nutritious breakfast tailored to your body. After finishing your meal, with just one voice command, you can arrange all the AI facilities in the entire room - the sweeping robot and the washing machine robot - to perform the tasks of the day according to your plan, and all you need to do is move your mouth. Next is the driving challenge you will face when traveling, specifically arriving at the company on time in a self driving car. The AI car has already planned the travel route in advance, combined with real-time traffic analysis, so you don't have to worry about congestion or tardiness. When you arrive at the company, turn on your computer, input today's work instructions through voice commands, while you hold the pre brewed coffee and wait for the results, and submit the modification instructions. Throughout the day, the meeting will generate relevant records and discussion results through AI intelligence, and form a schedule reminder progress. Everything is proceeding smoothly with the assistance of AI.

Do you all have some longing for this kind of life? I believe it will be realized soon, but as I write this, I feel a little scared ....

02 AI "double-edged sword"

The convenience brought by technology is indeed impressive, but it is also a double-edged sword. I believe everyone has watched many science fiction movies, and the corresponding plot is familiar: AI robots gradually have their own consciousness, start to refute humans, disobey instructions, and even harm humans... At this point, some people may say, how can it be so evil, after all, it is something developed by humans and can be cultivated into a spirit? Of course, as a generative AI tool, ChatGPT has powerful data reading and training capabilities, but at the same time, data security issues have become a prominent problem that has emerged during the evolution process, and Samsung, as is well known, has been deeply affected.

03 Affected Enterprises

At the beginning, Samsung completely banned ChatGPT, and only allowed some departments to use it in mid March this year. But unexpectedly, this decision exposed major issues with ChatGPT. In less than 20 days, three incidents of sensitive information leakage were exposed, including some confidential data such as device measurements and product qualification rates, which have already been entered into ChatGPT's learning database.

Once these data fall into the hands of other users or even competitors, it can be considered a very dangerous behavior. In order to improve the adverse effects caused by the ChatGPT data breach, Samsung has also begun to develop its own ChatGPT program as a response measure.

04 SocietyThe impact at different levels

Data leakage is one aspect. If we were to describe the personality of ChatGPT, the adjective 'stubborn' is simply not appropriate. Many users have reported that some verification questions may involve piecing together and taking out of context, and these behaviors are not first-time offenders.

In early March, it inexplicably added the charge of "sexual harassment of others" to a law school professor in the United States and made inappropriate references in other contexts. My personal guess here is that ChatGPT may have had a bias in understanding the behavior in some of the cases taught by law school professors, resulting in summarizing the third-party perspective as the first perspective. In other words, some cases in certain industries may be portrayed as protagonists by ChatGPT, which is not too outrageous.

Some criminals use tools to do illegal and disorderly things. Recently, a man in Dongguan used ChatGPT tool to collect and organize recent hot news events in order to attract attention and gain traffic, and then changed and uploaded them to social media platforms to earn illegal profits. The subsequent result was that he was arrested by the police for misleading readers and affecting the online environment.

05 Impact on People

Of course, the most dangerous thing is us. The promotion of ChatGPT has gradually lowered the threshold for more and more jobs. After many companies introduced it, they eliminated many positions based on the principle of reducing costs and increasing efficiency. Many creative positions are facing the day when their ideas dry up, but in the face of ChatGPT, creativity can be replicated in bulk.

Therefore, once most of the work content is quantified, the introduction of replicable content that ChatGPT is bound to bring about a large wave of layoffs for such positions. In the future, many positions do have the risk of being replaced, and it is very large.
Science and technology is indeed a double-edged sword. When I remembered that when I was a child, computers were just popularized, and when Internet cafes were first introduced, my family was worried about sudden death, and they were not allowed to go to Internet cafes and did not dare to buy computers. Now I think of it, I also smile. Now that the new revolutionary technology has come out, it is not a "demon knife" in everyone's hands. If you use it well, you are the knife. If you don't use it well, the knife is you.

Information source: Zhibang Digital Intelligence Research Institute (WeChat official account)