{"id":156529,"date":"2023-01-28T21:22:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T03:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/big-tech-was-moving-cautiously-on-ai-then-came-chatgpt"},"modified":"2023-01-28T21:22:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T03:22:38","slug":"big-tech-was-moving-cautiously-on-ai-then-came-chatgpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/big-tech-was-moving-cautiously-on-ai-then-came-chatgpt","title":{"rendered":"Big Tech was moving cautiously on AI. Then came ChatGPT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/big-tech-was-moving-cautiously-on-ai-then-came-chatgpt2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the exponential upward curve phase of the Technological Singularity, folks.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Three months before ChatGPT debuted in November, Facebook\u2019s parent company Meta released a similar chatbot. But unlike the phenomenon that ChatGPT instantly became, with more than a million users in its first five days, Meta\u2019s Blenderbot was boring, said Meta\u2019s chief artificial intelligence scientist, Yann LeCun.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason it was boring was because it was made safe,\u201d LeCun said last week at a forum hosted by AI consulting company Collective[i]. He blamed the tepid public response on Meta being \u201coverly careful about content moderation,\u201d like directing the chatbot to change the subject if a user asked about religion. ChatGPT, on the other hand, will converse about the concept of falsehoods in the Quran, write a prayer for a rabbi to deliver to Congress and compare God to a flyswatter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.washingtonpost.com\/newsletters\/#\/bundle\/postmost?method=SURL&location=YAHOO&initiative=feed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the exponential upward curve phase of the Technological Singularity, folks. Three months before ChatGPT debuted in November, Facebook\u2019s parent company Meta released a similar chatbot. But unlike the phenomenon that ChatGPT instantly became, with more than a million users in its first five days, Meta\u2019s Blenderbot was boring, said Meta\u2019s chief artificial intelligence [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,6,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}