This so-called artificial general intelligence could foreshadow the creation of autonomous robots capable of making their own decisions completely independently from human input.
OpenAI’s November release of ChatGPT took the world by storm as the AI chatbot surpassed all previous expectations of the technology.
Its unique selling point is that it is trained on petabytes of data from across the entire internet, meaning users can ask it questions on virtually any topic and receive convincing-sounding answers.
Experts have warned that AI chatbots are capable of “hallucinating” answers that may be completely wrong, however.
“This kind of AI we’re talking about right now can sometimes lead to something we call hallucination,” Prabhakar Raghavan, the head of Google Search, told a German newspaper in February.
Around $120bn (£96bn) was wiped from Google’s market value later that month after its ChatGPT rival, Bard, gave a convincing-but-wrong answer to a question. The response was then reproduced in launch publicity material for the chatbot.
Bard gave an inaccurate answer to the question: “What new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope can I tell my 9 year old about?”
It falsely suggested the telescope was used to make the very first discoveries of planets outside the solar system.
The response triggered the biggest single-day fall in Google’s share price for five months.
