Systems are doing it for themselves

Michael Witbrock urged people to try ChatGPT – ‘You can endlessly entertain yourself and it doesn’t mind that you’re taunting it … yet.’

The unstoppable development of artificial intelligence (AI) is as big a change as the invention of writing or the printing press, and it is up to society to ensure it is used for good, not harm, a global expert told a Warkworth meeting last month.

Auckland University’s Professor Michael Witbrock told the University of the Third Age science and climate group that the world – and people’s roles within it – were going to become dramatically different, as ...