mercatornet.com
2024-09-14
So-called "artificial intelligence" (AI) has become an ever-increasing part of our lives in recent years. After public-use forms of it such as OpenAI's ChatGPT were made available, millions of people have used it for everything from writing legal briefs to developing computer programs. Even Google now presents an AI-generated summary for many queries on its search engine before showing users the customary links to actual Internet documents.
Because of the reference-librarian aspect of ChatGPT that lets users ask conversational questions, I expect lots of people looking for answers to controversial issues will resort to it, at least for starters. Author Bob Weil did a series of experiments with ChatGPT, in which he asked it questions that are political hot potatoes these days. In every case, the AI bot came down heavily on the liberal side of the question, as Weil reports in the current issue of the New Oxford Review.