AI and the Challenges Ahead
I have a growing curiosity about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and I have been playing with the ChatGPT app to understand it’s capabilities and where we are in 2024! First and foremost, you need to understand that this is a language-based app. It uses enormous computing power to interpret what I am asking and then incorporate all it has learned to provide a response. It’s training ended in 2022 so current events, such as the Israeli – Hamas war are not in its realm of knowledge. My first attempt to use ChatGPT was particularly eye opening. I asked what I assumed to be a simple question… Can you create a list of Presidents of the United States ordered by their age at inauguration? The result was surprising. As I am sure you know Joe Biden is the 46 th president in our nation’s history. Surprisingly, ChatGPT produced a list of only 41 people! I did not scrutinize the list, but it was apparent to me that Mr. Biden was not on the list (he should have been last being our