Episode 104 of MARS MESSINA PRESENTS takes a close look at OpenAI's newest, and 4th, version of its chatbot called, ChatGPT. ChatGPT-4 is a large multimodal model (accepting image and text inputs, emitting text outputs) that, while (generally) less capable than humans in many real-world scenarios, exhibits human-level performance on various professional and academic benchmarks.

ChatGPT has only been available to the public since November 2022. In March 2023, Version 4 hit the scene by ACCURATELY DIAGNOSING a rare disease in an infant. Although still rife with errors and misinformation, ChatGPT 4 does things exceedingly well, when it does it right - even surpassing the skills of many doctors. In related news, a programmer developed an AI chatbot based off of GPT technology and named it ChaosGPT. ChaosGPT has been programmed to identify human beings as the planet's most destructive force, to decide that human beings must be eradicated from the earth, and to execute this directive.
These chatbots are neither good or bad. They don't have a conscious. They do follow commands really, really well, within the parameters of the skills with which they have been programmed. While this technology cannot presently destroy humanity or perform a successful open heart surgery, the writing is on the wall. It is imperative that we enhance our critical thinking skills, revisit ethics over and over, and teach children to do the same. We must remember our humanity. The tech is here to stay. We need to be proactive and stay ahead of it, or it will mow us down. Not intentionally, but because of human neglect or malice.

BEDTIME STORIES FROM THE ACOUSTIC BOOKSHELF concludes today's episode with an excerpt from the poem, "The Hollow Men", by T.S. Eliot.

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