By Roberto Vega Andersen
In the rain of themes that arrive daily, some gain prominence and remain longer revolving around us. For example, these days the issue of Artificial Intelligence (AI) was installed there and especially the OpenAI ChatGPT launched on March 14 in a greatly improved version. His ability to create human language is surprising and has been a topic addressed by numerous local and international media.
The first call for attention from the most severe analysts focuses on its free being a program developed by private investors and with enormous economic capacity, such as Microsoft and Google. When will the monetary blow come and how intense will we feel it on our Achilles heel?
In addition, it is possible to understand that this predictive program has its origin in the information gathered about each one of us. While we interact on telephones or computers, we are delivering behaviors, secrets, moral guidelines, our humor... everything is stored in that enormous "cupboard" and suddenly, with ChatGPT the algorithms create the most comfortable responses to our ears -it has already passed Law and Medicine exams in the United States and Spain- and with a memory that obviously exceeds the human capacity to surprise humans. But, as the saying goes, "when the handout is great, even the saint distrusts", and the most pressing fear invades us when we wonder when the moment will come when these technology companies will be able to guide the future through their responses. predictive.
And there are more novelties... as was proclaimed in the past. Also days ago the launch of devices like MidJourney and DALL-E (and there are more) facilitate the creation of new visual content. We will have been surprised by the false image of Pope Francis wearing a white feathered jacket... These tools advance the creation of images formed from stored memory, but the results are stinging. There are already governments concerned about this generation of generative Artificial Intelligence and even the managers of these initiatives, such as Elon Musk, among other experts, who have come to argue that Artificial Intelligence could even lead "to the destruction of civilization". All of them signed a letter calling for a six-month pause on the idea of developing protocols to regulate these tools. The risks are not minor and their evolution will affect us all... Where are we headed? How to set limits and regulate its use and development? A new "war" has begun and we insist, we will all be immersed in it.
From our vantage point this time we bring you the voices of Irina Podgorny, Abel Alexander, Daniel Schavelzon, Germán Carvajal, Norberto Pablo Cirio; all of them, prominent references in their cultural work spaces and regular collaborators of Hilario, and from Belgium, Joran Proot. Enjoy them!
