{"id":169641,"date":"2023-08-13T22:24:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T03:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/ai-fears-overblown-theoretical-physicist-calls-chatbots-glorified-tape-recorders"},"modified":"2023-08-13T22:24:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T03:24:01","slug":"ai-fears-overblown-theoretical-physicist-calls-chatbots-glorified-tape-recorders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/ai-fears-overblown-theoretical-physicist-calls-chatbots-glorified-tape-recorders","title":{"rendered":"AI fears overblown? Theoretical physicist calls chatbots \u2018glorified tape recorders\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-fears-overblown-theoretical-physicist-calls-chatbots-glorified-tape-recorders.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The public\u2019s anxiety over new AI technology is misguided, according to theoretical physicist Michio Kaku.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with CNN\u2019s Fareed Zakaria on Sunday, the futurologist said chatbots like OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT will benefit society and increase productivity. But fear has driven people to largely focus on the negative implications of the programs, which he terms \u201cglorified tape recorders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt takes snippets of what\u2019s on the web created by a human, splices them together and passes it off as if it created these things,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd people are saying, \u2018Oh<strong> <\/strong>my God, it\u2019s a human, it\u2019s humanlike.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The public\u2019s anxiety over new AI technology is misguided, according to theoretical physicist Michio Kaku. In an interview with CNN\u2019s Fareed Zakaria on Sunday, the futurologist said chatbots like OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT will benefit society and increase productivity. But fear has driven people to largely focus on the negative implications of the programs, which he terms [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169641","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}