it reached 100 million active users making it the fastest growing consumer app ever. beating out tech titans like tiktok, snapchat, and instagram and facebook. but if you re not one of the 100 million people already using chat gpt, this is what it is. it is essentially a search engine but smarter. it can write essays, poems, solve math problems, write code and much more. but there are also some major concerns. which brings us to our next guest. kevin ruse is a tech columnist for the new york times. kevin, good to you see you. thanks for having me. you recently wrote a piece for the times about a two-hour conversation with microsoft s new bing search feature that incorporates chat gpt. and detailed some of the darker sides of this new computer program, writing this, i m quoting now, microsoft s new chat bot said it would like to be human, had a desire to be
reporter: with an estimated 100 million unique visitors already this year, the two-month old gbt is growing faster than tiktok or instagram initially did analysts say and generating endless headlines about an artificial intelligence revolution. if we had a day i could fill every hour in that day with some of the perils of this technology and why we ought to be fascinated and concerned. reporter: they use a database and a.i. to solve math problems, generate computer codes, write sentences, paragraphs, whole pages that seem very human. at the u.s. capitol. this is a critical step forward in an era where a.i. and implications are taking center stage in public discourse. reporter: a congressman gave a speech he says entirely written by chat gpt. i wanted to spotlight this for congress so that we have a debate now about purposeful
intelligence app had a massive 100 million unique visitors in january. and this wasn t just its second month of operation. tom foreman joins us now to help us understand this. tom, i will admit i had to give myself a crash course in what this app was and what it does. so, if you could kind of walk our viewers through for those who haven t heard of it yet, what it is, and why they re probably going to hear about it soon if they haven t already. i would say first sign up. it s changing the world a lot. it is an artificial intelligence chat bot that has been jammed with all sorts of information. and with that information, it can produce some amazing responses. it s not searching the internet. it s doing it from its database. it can write essays, basic business letters, notes to your mom. it can do all that in a very human-like way. it can solve basic math problems. it can write simple computer
piece, this is not good for a lot of sort of business cases. it is incredibly good if you want to, say, cheat on your schoolwork or if you re a scammer or, say, a russian disinformation farm or whatever. it s good for people trying to generate huge amounts of text that doesn t have to be especially convincing very quickly. right. as someone said whom you cited, superb bs-ing. that s what it allows to you do. yeah, and the other thing about this, and really the reason why people are banning it, why people are treating it skeptically not just in schools but we re seeing these kind of knowledge communities as well as academic groups because it makes stuff up. ai experts call this hallucination, a funny term, but essentially the ai will just invent things, names, places, points in history, and just state it with supreme conviction which can be really funny. it can get math problems wrong. and because it s so convincing
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