Brave new World

In conversation with ChatGPT

Abstract

Artificial Intelligence – the most consequential advancement of our age or soon to be responsible for the demise of our species? At the heart of the ongoing AI revolution are increasingly powerful Large Language Models like ChatGPT that can process, comprehend, and generate language. Fred Hamprecht of the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, who develops machine learning algorithms for the natural sciences, had several conversations with ChatGPT on the topic of Artificial Intelligence. Here is what the two have to say on weak and strong AI, the possibility of a General Artificial Intelligence emerging in our lifetime, and whether we should continue developing AI.