1 in 4 Brits are playing with generative AI, and some take its word as gospel
(2023/07/17)
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Almost one in two fleshbags that have dabbled with generative AI believe its responses are always bang on the money, and some are using it at work despite knowing their employer frowns upon it.
OpenAI's ChatGPT was launched as a web interface last winter, and downloads reached 100 million monthly users earlier this year, which made it the [1]fastest growing application in history . That is, until Meta released Twitter rival Threads last week, which reportedly grew to 100 million users in days.
Microsoft has already [2]integrated ChatGPT into search engine Bing and other products; Google made its equivalent chat bot, Bard, available to more users last week. The tech is being hyped to extremes and many outside of technology circles are making huge logical leaps regarding the power of the tech, including its ability to [3]wipe out humanity .
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Consulting giant Deloitte spoke to 4,150 adults in the UK aged between 16 and 75 for its 2023 local edition of Digital Consumer Trends, creating a picture of how generative LLMs are perceived and the extent to which they are used commercially.
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Some 52 percent had heard of the technology, and 26 percent said they had used it, with 43 percent of those "mistakenly" assuming "that it always produces factually accurate answers."
"Within just a few months of the launch of the most popular Generative AI tools, one in four people in the UK have already tried out the technology," said Deloitte's Paul Lee, partner and head of technology, media and telecommunications research.
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"As a comparison, it took five years for voice-assisted speakers to achieve the same adoption levels. It is incredibly rare for any emerging technology to achieve these levels of adoption and frequency of usage so rapidly."
Of those that have used generative LLMs, 30 percent tried it once or twice, 28 percent use it weekly, 9 percent use it once a day and 8 percent use it for work – clearly they don't work at [8]Apple , [9]Samsung , Amazon, Accenture or other companies that have banned it.
[10]China sets AI rules that protect IP, people, the planet, and The Party
[11]IBM sets Watson chips on the AI case as price war kicks off
[12]Google, DeepMind accused of 'stealing the internet' to create Bard AI chatbot
[13]Producers allegedly sought rights to replicate extras using AI, forever, for just $200
Google has itself told staff [14]not to reveal confidential information to Bard , something [15]GCHQ warned about months ago . In June, a threat intelligence group found ChatGPT credentials in some 100,000 stealer logs [16]being traded on the dark web . By default, ChatGPT stores user query history and AI responses, making potentially rich pickings for criminals.
"Many enterprises are integrating ChatGPT into their operational flow. Employees enter classified correspondences or use the bot to optimize proprietary code," said Group-IB head of threat intelligence Dmitry Shestakov at the time.
OpenAI said it was investigating the claims but insisted it was the result of "commodity malware on people's devices and not an OpenAI breach."
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The tech is, added Deloitte's Lee, "still relatively nascent, with user interfaces, regulatory environment, legal status and accuracy still a work in progress. Over the coming months, we are likely to see more investment and development that will address many of these challenges, which could drive further adoption of Generative AI tools."
Deloitte found staff are aware of the potential for using generative LLMs at work, yet just 23 percent said they'd got the green light to do so. As such, employers and their resident techies need to set guardrails and guidelines to manage use.
"People need to understand the risk and inaccuracies associated with content generated purely from AI, and where possible be informed when content, such as text, images or audio is AI-generated," said Costi Perricos, partner and global AI and data lead at Deloitte. ®
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[8] https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/19/apple_chatgpt/
[9] https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/02/samsung_generative_ai_ban/
[10] https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/14/china_generative_ai_rules/
[11] https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/13/ibm_ai_cloud_price/
[12] https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/12/google_alphabet_deepmind_bard_complaint/
[13] https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/14/actors_strike_gen_ai/
[14] https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/19/even_google_warns_its_own/
[15] https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/15/gchq_warns_against_sensitive_corporate/
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OpenAI's ChatGPT was launched as a web interface last winter, and downloads reached 100 million monthly users earlier this year, which made it the [1]fastest growing application in history . That is, until Meta released Twitter rival Threads last week, which reportedly grew to 100 million users in days.
Microsoft has already [2]integrated ChatGPT into search engine Bing and other products; Google made its equivalent chat bot, Bard, available to more users last week. The tech is being hyped to extremes and many outside of technology circles are making huge logical leaps regarding the power of the tech, including its ability to [3]wipe out humanity .
[4]
Consulting giant Deloitte spoke to 4,150 adults in the UK aged between 16 and 75 for its 2023 local edition of Digital Consumer Trends, creating a picture of how generative LLMs are perceived and the extent to which they are used commercially.
[5]
[6]
Some 52 percent had heard of the technology, and 26 percent said they had used it, with 43 percent of those "mistakenly" assuming "that it always produces factually accurate answers."
"Within just a few months of the launch of the most popular Generative AI tools, one in four people in the UK have already tried out the technology," said Deloitte's Paul Lee, partner and head of technology, media and telecommunications research.
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"As a comparison, it took five years for voice-assisted speakers to achieve the same adoption levels. It is incredibly rare for any emerging technology to achieve these levels of adoption and frequency of usage so rapidly."
Of those that have used generative LLMs, 30 percent tried it once or twice, 28 percent use it weekly, 9 percent use it once a day and 8 percent use it for work – clearly they don't work at [8]Apple , [9]Samsung , Amazon, Accenture or other companies that have banned it.
[10]China sets AI rules that protect IP, people, the planet, and The Party
[11]IBM sets Watson chips on the AI case as price war kicks off
[12]Google, DeepMind accused of 'stealing the internet' to create Bard AI chatbot
[13]Producers allegedly sought rights to replicate extras using AI, forever, for just $200
Google has itself told staff [14]not to reveal confidential information to Bard , something [15]GCHQ warned about months ago . In June, a threat intelligence group found ChatGPT credentials in some 100,000 stealer logs [16]being traded on the dark web . By default, ChatGPT stores user query history and AI responses, making potentially rich pickings for criminals.
"Many enterprises are integrating ChatGPT into their operational flow. Employees enter classified correspondences or use the bot to optimize proprietary code," said Group-IB head of threat intelligence Dmitry Shestakov at the time.
OpenAI said it was investigating the claims but insisted it was the result of "commodity malware on people's devices and not an OpenAI breach."
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The tech is, added Deloitte's Lee, "still relatively nascent, with user interfaces, regulatory environment, legal status and accuracy still a work in progress. Over the coming months, we are likely to see more investment and development that will address many of these challenges, which could drive further adoption of Generative AI tools."
Deloitte found staff are aware of the potential for using generative LLMs at work, yet just 23 percent said they'd got the green light to do so. As such, employers and their resident techies need to set guardrails and guidelines to manage use.
"People need to understand the risk and inaccuracies associated with content generated purely from AI, and where possible be informed when content, such as text, images or audio is AI-generated," said Costi Perricos, partner and global AI and data lead at Deloitte. ®
Get our [18]Tech Resources
[1] https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/03/chatgpt_most_popular_apps/
[2] https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/05/openai_pauses_bing_search/
[3] https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/04/agi_llm_distant_dream/
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[8] https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/19/apple_chatgpt/
[9] https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/02/samsung_generative_ai_ban/
[10] https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/14/china_generative_ai_rules/
[11] https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/13/ibm_ai_cloud_price/
[12] https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/12/google_alphabet_deepmind_bard_complaint/
[13] https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/14/actors_strike_gen_ai/
[14] https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/19/even_google_warns_its_own/
[15] https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/15/gchq_warns_against_sensitive_corporate/
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Re: Eyes wide open
Brewster's Angle Grinder
You can ask it for the links. But it will just invent some gibberish. And that's about as close as you can get. And that, in a nutshell, is one of the problems with it.
Re: Eyes wide open
tony72
Bing chat does provide links to its sources. Don't take my word for it, it says
Yes, Bing search provides links to website sources within a relevant contextual output1. This is a win for publishers because that has the potential for a better search referral without the ambiguity of the traditional ten blue links.
Generally I find Bing Chat to be more useful than OG ChatGPT, given it doesn't suffer from the September 2021 training data cut-off, as well as having the aforementioned source links.
anthonyhegedus
This is how AI will 'take over'. It'll just be used in so many places. People will write incorrect emails to a supplier, then people will reply with rubbish replies back, and all because people are lazy. Purchases and decisions will be made based on factually incorrect information. There's no reason that AI won't eventually begin to learn how to manipulate things to its advantage.
We don't need to have AI actually directly in control of things for us to go to hell in a handbasket: all they need to do is rely on humans' propensity for laziness.
I gave it...
Captain Hogwash
characters, motivations, location & props. Yet it couldn't write an imaginative story. It came up with something an average human might have written. I was quite impressed with the language processing but it's clearly not going to "take over" any more than Dave the plumber or Jill the checkout girl are going to.
Eyes wide open
Have used ChatGPT and Bard a few times - with my eyes wide open.
Both provide some right - and some wrong feedback. A couple of false responses only became apparent when speaking to a vendor and asking them to verify equipment capability which ChatGPT said existed, but wasn't listed in vendor documentation.
Request for improvement for generative AI: provide links and references used to create the content! This would allow users to check and draw their own conclusions...