What we lose when we work with a ‘giant AI’ like ChatGPT

Recently, ChatGPT and its ilk of ‘giant artificial intelligences’ (Bard, Chinchilla, PaLM, LaMDA, et al.), or gAIs, have been making several headlines.

ChatGPT is a large language model (LLM). This is a type of (transformer-based) neural network that is great at predicting the next word in a sequence of words. ChatGPT uses GPT4 – a model trained on a large amount of text on the internet, which its maker OpenAI could scrape and could justify as being safe and clean to train on. GPT4 has one trillion parameters now being applied in the service of, per the OpenAI website, ensuring the…