AI’s development and TCI’s future

The future is now and millions of people around the world are concerned about the dangers of new and innovative technologies – from robotic process automation to virtual and augmented reality and now, the controversial new “ChatGPT” artificial intelligence (AI), already spreading like wildfires across national borders and the business sector.

Despite its far-reaching unfamiliarity, AI has evinced endless possibilities in technological innovations; shaping the world we live in, manifested through a wide array of tools, which enable governments,

BY D MARKIE

corporations, institutions and individuals to rethink how they fused information, analyse data and apply outcomes to decisionmaking.

ChatGPT – Chat Generative

Pre-trained Transformer, is a Chabot developed by “OpenAI,” an AI research and Development Company, whose mission is to make sure, artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

Since its inauguration, many experts, business leaders, and policymakers have used and assessed the new technology, and presented their findings – some of which are favourable, while other pundits conclude, the platform is a dangerous tool in its current state.

It gained instant popularity among CEOs for its ability to craft emails and among academia for being able to research papers and answer almost any question instantly. In fact, the machine learning tool was able to pass three exams from the Wharton School of Business.

Similarly, Jack Po, CEO at

Ansible Health, successfully used ChatGPT to pass three versions of the US medical licensing test. More so, Po and a team of 30 doctors are using the platform to help with pulmonary treatments for patients with COPD. This technology is useful – they say – as it suddenly recommends lifesaving undertakings, which doctors couldn’t otherwise envisage.

However, it was Jake Heller – lawyer and founder of Case Text – who said he uses the AI technology to help clients comb through documents. He also employ the tool to read police reports, ascertain whether or not witnesses have contradictory testimony and find information pertinent to guilt or innocence.

Despite being a powerful new tech with extraordinary potential OpenAI warned, ChatGPT is still in its research stage and it is liable to produce inaccurate information or harmful instructions, especially inside the political arena and the education system.

Consequently, policymakers have summoned an oversight of the model. Meanwhile, New York

City public schools have banned the platform from school network devices, because of concerns about plagiarism and the negative impact on students’ learning, and regarding the safety and accuracy of the content.

Although many stakeholders are sounding the alarm about the risk of misuse, Microsoft credits the technology – even with its potential risks – and decided to invest $10bn in ChatGPT parent company – OpenAI— to improve the technology.

Recognising this information, the TCI Government – before attempting to implement such technology on a broad scale –should conduct an assessment of this model and develop a policy framework to govern its usage.

More so, colleges and other learning institutions must test the platform to ensure its impact on students’ learning and parents must help monitor their children and how they use this technology.

Although it is revolutionary, as the internet, if it is not applied suitably, ChatGPT can potentially hurt people in the TCI and across the globe.