The article also discusses the need for new language and laws to protect society in the AI age. It argues that terms like "learning", "understanding", and "thinking" are not accurate descriptions of what AI does. The author suggests that just as we developed new language to understand computers in the 1950s, we may need to do the same to make sense of AI in the 2020s.
Key takeaways:
- The New York Times has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that their AI-based text-generation tool, ChatGPT, infringes copyright by using the newspaper's articles to train and test their systems.
- OpenAI argues that their use of online data falls under the principle of "fair use" as they transform the work into something new - the text generated by ChatGPT.
- There are concerns that AI systems could destroy the sources of data they were originally trained on, which includes creative endeavours like newspapers and online encyclopedias.
- As society shifts into the AI age, there are questions about whether current laws are sufficient to protect and support people, and whether new language and laws need to be developed to make sense of new technology.