Altman, whose company makes ChatGPT, noted that today’s AI systems “definitely can’t do that. [those] In these three areas, workers can benefit from using a chatbot as a productivity tool, he said.
Here’s how
Coding
Chat GPT can help programmers finish their work three times faster than usual, Altman said. He added that the system can help with tasks such as reviewing written code for errors, writing test cases, answering programmer questions and even creating entirely new code by itself.
The key word is “help”. According to a 2023 study by researchers at Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley, GPT-4, released by OpenAI last year, provides incorrect answers to programming questions about half the time.
Coders who use ChatGPT to help with their work should proceed with caution and double-check everything the chatbot says – a process that can be faster than performing these tasks manually. Is.
The goal isn’t just to help coders get more done in less time, Altman said: Such a productivity shift could give people more free time to think outside the box.
“They can – at this higher level of abstraction, using more of their brain power – they can think about completely different things now,” he said. “That’s how it is [how] Going from punch cards to high-level languages not only allowed us to program a little faster, but it also allowed us to do these new things.”
Education
Currently, AI systems can help teachers create curricula, or personalized lesson plans for specific students. They can also save time by performing various administrative tasks for teachers, such as tracking attendance or sending automatic assignment reminders.
It can also be useful for learning new languages: Education tech companies like Duolingo have, somewhat controversially, reportedly begun to shed workers as they rely more on AI.
Gates also touted ChatGPT’s potential to power tutoring programs, hoping to expand access to personal tutors for students in remote and underserved communities. Last year, he predicted that people would be “surprised” by how much AI tutors could soon help students improve their reading and writing skills.
“AIs will acquire the ability to be as good a tutor as any human can be,” Gates said in a keynote address at the ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego last April.
Some academics have expressed concern that tools like ChatGPT could make it easier for students to cheat on assignments. Research so far hasn’t shown an increase in cheating — but the mistakes it makes mean parents and teachers should remind students to never trust AI alone, Barnard College psychologist Dr. Tova Klein told CNBC Make It last year.
Health care
OpenAI’s chatbot has already passed the US medical licensing exam, although experts warn that the system’s propensity for errors makes it unlikely to be trusted by most patients in the near future.
But AI tools could benefit doctors by serving as digital assistants to help with time-consuming administrative tasks like insurance paperwork, American Medical Association President Jesse Ehrenfeld said last year.
Such tools can analyze research and summarize patients’ medical histories, the AMA noted separately last year. And they can save time and educate medical patients by answering their most frequently asked questions, research shows.
Beyond Your Doctor’s Office, some pharmaceutical companies are using ChatGPT to automate parts of the new drug discovery and research process, Gates wrote in a 2023 blog post.
“One of the Gates Foundation’s priorities in AI is to ensure that these tools are used to address health problems that affect the world’s poorest people, including AIDS, [tuberculosis]and malaria,” he wrote.
Altman echoed that enthusiasm on Gates’ podcast, noting that the technology is still in its infancy.
“What we’re seeing right now is very exciting and amazing, but I think it’s always worth putting it in the context of a technology that has a very steep improvement curve, at least for the next five or ten years. will remain.” Altman said. “These are the dumbest models that will ever be.”
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