In recent months, there has been a growing public warning of the risks of burgeoning AI technology.
A global power outage occurred on Thursday, Chat GPT It served as a warning about how overreliance on artificial intelligence could affect business operations.
From the short-term danger of losing millions of jobs to the risk to the survival of humanity, AI has quickly risen to the top of the concerns of politicians and scientists, with some experts calling the issue even worse than climate change. are also called “emergency”.
Meanwhile, investors are showing support for AI technology.
thursday stocks Nvidia Ltd. NVDA After the company’s latest earnings release, the company surged 26%, helping to cement its position as the “undisputed AI leader.”
Too much risk of AI in the workplace
According to a paper published last week by Open AI”research division said, “80% of U.S. workers could be affected by the introduction of GPT to at least 10% of their jobs,” while about one-fifth of workers had at least half of their jobs affected. stated that it could be affected by
These effects are expected across wage ladders and across industries, with “high-income jobs potentially at greater risk.”
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Even the White House has recently embarked on an AI preparedness trend, but there is one concern that most disaster forecasters don’t include. That is the potential risk of AI overreliance in the business world.
According to Gizmodo, Thursday’s ChatGPT outage lasted just over an hour from 7:23 a.m. to 8:27 a.m. ET.
“Over the past few hours, the site was impacted by high CPU usage in the database, but the underlying issue has been resolved,” OpenAI said, promising to “prevent the problem from happening again.”
ChatGPT is normally accessed through OpenAI’s servers. There are ways to run programs locally on private servers, but OpenAI’s business model is built around subscriptions, and most companies (even those with sufficient infrastructure) Benefit from not having to host the AI on your own servers.
This means that a ChatGPT outage could ultimately mean a shutdown for most businesses as they continue to rely more and more on this kind of software.
Companies are already using OpenAI’s APIs to build chatbots and digital assistants, as well as many other tasks such as data classification, text analysis, and coding assistance.
More companies are starting to manually use ChatGPT to complement their operations.
The app broke the record for the fastest growing user base ever, hitting the 100 million mark in just over two months.it took tick tock 9 months and Instagram — Owner Meta Platforms Co., Ltd. meta — It takes two and a half years to get there.
Businesses are starting to rely on ChatGPT’s text generation capabilities to brainstorm ideas, create copy, create social media content, create presentations, email, and more.
These tasks are still performed by humans and may take the place of AI in the event of failure, but once technology becomes part of normal business, ChatGPT outages will reduce overall productivity. could mean a decline in
Over-reliance on automatic text generation can also get your company into legal trouble.
From so-called “hallucinations” where ChatGPT outputs false information, to discrimination based on gender and race, delegating too much responsibility to software like ChatGPT can leave companies making unwanted errors and risking lawsuits. may be connected.