The author of the popular books “Black Swan” and “Antifragile”, academic Nassim Nicholas Taleb, who is also a vocal critic of Bitcoin, has published an important warning about OpenAI’s flagship product, ChatGPT.
The author of the popular books “Black Swan” and “Antifragile”, academic Nassim Nicholas Taleb, who is also a vocal critic of Bitcoin, has published an important warning about OpenAI’s flagship product, ChatGPT.
On Friday, Edward Snowden posted a similar warning, although his message was much stronger than Taleb’s.
Nassim Taleb attacks ChatGPT
An expert in risk management and finance, Taleb continues to dive into modern technologies and find flaws in them. A Bitcoin critic who used to be a strong supporter of BTC, has shared his opinion on a recent controversial invention: artificial intelligence and, in particular, on the ChatGPT bot created by OpenAI.
Taleb shared a screenshot of his dialogue with the AI-powered chatbot, pointing out a weak point of this software: it does not admit that it does not know the answers to users’ specific questions.
In Taleb’s particular case, it was then that the writer asked the program to give him the Latin name of Saint Sassine, one of the first Christian martyrs who consequently became one of the fathers of the church after the Emperor Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire.
The screenshot shows that Taleb kept saying “no” to all the answers offered by ChatGPT; However, the software continued to produce new variants in an attempt to answer Taleb’s question.
The author of “Black Swan” tweeted that ChatGPT has a way of talking nonsense if it doesn’t know the answer to a user’s question.
Yuri MolchanEdward Snowden’s warning to avoid using ChatGPT
On Friday, whistleblower and former NSA analyst Edward Snowden posted a tweet to harshly criticize ChatGPT created by OpenAI.
It warned the community to never use ChatGPT after it emerged that OpenAI had appointed a former NSA chief, Paul Nakasone, to the company’s board of directors.
Nearly 15 years ago, when Snowden became a whistleblower, he revealed that the NSA had been secretly paying private American technology companies to share access to users’ communications.
This time, he claimed that OpenAI had been “completely baffled.” He called Nakasone’s appointment “a deliberate and calculated betrayal of the rights of every person on Earth.” He warned the X community to never use OpenAI or any of its products, including ChatGPT.
