Mark Cuban Sounds Alarm On ChatGPT: 'We're Just In The First Inning Of What's Going To Happen'

Zinger Key Points
  • As the popularity of ChatGPT rises, Mark Cuban issues a warning about the rise of AI.
  • Cuban sees who controls the "machine" in AI more important than social media today.

Investor and entrepreneur Mark Cuban is the latest big-name person to share their thoughts about ChatGPT, a chatbot that uses artificial intelligence to give answers to questions generated by humans.

Here’s what Cuban thinks of ChatGPT.

What Happened: ChatGPT made headlines in 2023 with the chatbot seeing increased engagement and parent company OpenAI commanding a $10 billion investment from Microsoft Corp MSFT. Microsoft is using ChatGPT to help revive its Bing search engine and compete with Alphabet Inc GOOGGOOGL-owned Google search engine.

While ChatGPT has been shown to pass major tests and exams, some have issued warning signs about the dangers that artificial intelligence can have.

Cuban is among those sounding the alarm on potential issues with ChatGPT.

“It’s gonna get worse,” Cuban said. “If you play with ChatGPT at all, the next battle isn’t about Twitter, control of Twitter, it’s who controls the AI models and the information that goes in them.”

Cuban’s comments came on an episode of “The Problem with Jon Stewart,” a podcast from the former Comedy Central “The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart. The podcast launched in 2021 and airs exclusively on AppleTV+, a unit of Apple Inc AAPL and has an accompanying audio version for Apple podcast subscribers.

Cuban said it’s stunning how far artificial intelligence and chatbots like ChatGPT are, but added there will be more to come.

“We’re just in the first inning of what’s going to happen with AI interactive models.”

Cuban said as later versions of ChatGPT are released, they are going to be more impactful than Twitter.

An example given by Cuban is one that concerns many teachers and public educators: Cuban said his 13-year-old is already scheming on how to use ChatGPT to write papers.

Cuban said you can ask ChatGPT to write a paper on a specific topic and also give the prompt to write it in the style of an eighth grader.

“It’s insane," he said.

Related Link: Why Steve Wozniak Thinks ChatGPT Can Never Replace The Human Touch

What’s Next: Cuban said his generation (Gen X) doesn’t get it.

“Gen Z and younger, they’re not only native to it, they know how to block things out. They’re better able to deal with it, but they’re also going to define what comes next, their generation, not our generation.”

Cuban argues that things could be far worse with the rise of chatbots like ChatGPT and that it’s a bigger worry than who is in charge of social media platforms like Twitter.

“The machine itself will have an influence and it’ll be difficult for us to define why and how the machine makes the decisions that it makes and who controls the machine,” Cuban said.

Cuban told Stewart that Twitter and Facebook are Democratic to a certain extent. Cuban also argued people will blame the AI used in the chatbots. Ultimately, Cuban cautions it will be who controls the machine that will have a large influence over the future with adoption of AI use cases rising.

“It’s not my fault, it’s the AI’s fault. We’re going into a whole new world.”

Cuban said the rise of artificial intelligence will be difficult to reverse engineer.

On Twitter, people follow people they trust, Cuban argued. With AI, it’s not an individual, Cuban added. Cuban said there’s going to be people who trust AI more than they do individuals on social media, which he calls insane.

“I don’t even think people realize how much things are going to change.”

Cuban told Stewart that AI “is more impactful than anything I’ve seen in my, in my career.”

Read Next: Bill Gates Says ChatGPT As Big An Invention As The Internet: 'Will Make Many Office Jobs...'

Photo: Gage Skidmore on flicker

 


 

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