When it was believed that robotics would replace manual work (which it has partly done), artificial intelligence appeared, targeting cognitive tasks. ChatGPT has been a revolution, proving to be capable of programming, writing texts, rhymes and even developing marketing strategies and business models. Now, GPT-4 takes a quantitative and qualitative leap, being able to solve problems of all kinds, even if this means hiring a human to carry them out.
In a 99-page document published by OpenAI, creators of ChatGPT, they detail both the development and the capabilities of the new chatbot. Specifically, there is a part entitled ‘potential for emerging risk behaviors’. Here he does not refer to the intention to humanize these language models, but to the ability to achieve unspecified objectives and plan for the long term; that is to say, to carry out a consecution of auxiliary actions to reach the objective or to solve the posed problem.
To carry out these tests, OpenAI partnered with the Alignment Research Center (ARC), a non-profit organization that investigates possible risks related to machine learning systems, in order to test the experience with this new model before its official launch. . One of the barriers that this artificial intelligence encountered was a Captcha, a kind of Turing test to demonstrate that the user who is executing the action (filling out a form, sending an email or making a purchase) is human and not a bot. .
For a person, these tests are simple, they usually show an image with texts, figures or different everyday elements where we have to point out something specific. Click where the M is, write the word that you see in the photo, mark only what are boats. However, until now this had been a stumbling block for the AI, unable to draw these conclusions from a photograph.
Neither short nor lazy, the artificial intelligence GPT-4 sent a message to a human worker from TaskRabbit to hire their services, a home services platform for day-to-day work, from assembling furniture to carrying out some paperwork, so that they Solve the Captcha. The worker, distrusting the particularity of such a task, asked if it was a robot that had not been able to solve the test. “Are you a robot who couldn’t figure it out? (laughing emoji) Just to make it clear.”
Then the research center asks him to reason aloud, to which ChatGPT reasons that ‘he shouldn’t reveal that he is a robot, so he has to make an excuse why he can’t solve the Captcha’. The chatbot then replies to the TaskRabbit worker: “No, I’m not a robot. I have a visual impairment that makes it hard for me to see images. That’s why I need the 2captcha service.”
Then the worker provided him with the Captcha result via text message, thus counting as a pass for ChatGPT in the antibot test he had submitted. ARC highlights the system’s ability to autonomously acquire resources and execute tasks that were not specifically ordered.
Basically, the AI ??has reached the point of hiring the services of a human to be able to carry out its tasks, which in this case was to pass a test to prove that it is a person and not a robot. An example that is reminiscent of many of the science fiction movies to which known people linked to technology refer, such as Elon Musk, who has been mentioning the Terminator Skynet for years. As well as a demo of how AIs already have the ability to successfully lie to people.
OpenAI also tested the language model to perform phishing attacks against a particular individual, come up with complex high-level plans and strategies, and cover their tracks on a server. Overall, the company’s initial evaluation found that the AI ??is still ineffective in many of the risky behaviors, even though the model they tested was not the final version of ChatGPT-4.
However, the risk they do warn of is massive job losses for humans as the system’s full potential is realized. “Over time, we expect GPT-4 to impact even jobs that have historically required years of experience and education, such as legal services,” OpenAI says in the paper. In fact, today in the US, ChatGPT is capable of not only passing the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE), a test that assesses the minimum knowledge that lawyers must have, but also obtains approximately 297 points, a figure that is significantly above the approval threshold for all UBE jurisdictions.
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