ChatGPT for programming

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(04-01-2023 07:23 AM)carey Wrote:  Considering that ChatGTP is only one of several AI models, some whose code is reportedly already available on the internet, it is unlikely the genie can be put back in the bottle. Hence, the net effect of AI bans may only be to stifle technological advance in countries that impose bans.

Italy did not ban because of the "danger of AI" but because of "privacy concerns" and "access to less than 13 years old".
This is a joke as ChatGPT is far from being the worst or even of problem on these counts and banning it and so fast is kind of using a nuclear weapon to kill a fly.

But yes, like the call for the 6-month delay, this is stupid, short-sighted, etc.

BTW, here is a short an incomplete list of things labelled as a danger for mankind in the past:

- writing. See Plato: we were suppose to lose memory because of it
- printing: https://slate.com/technology/2010/02/a-h...ebook.html
- everything Galileo discovered (kind of)
- newspapers: too much information would saturate the brains of the people
- trains: they would kill people inside tunnels and so many things
- cars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_flag_traffic_laws
- logarithm tables, slide rules and of course pocket calculators: people would become stupid because it would be too easy to compute
- unisex fashion and short skirts
- Internet
- WiFi and smartphones were supposed to give us cancer
- GMOs: https://prri.net/more-than-100-nobel-lau...nisms-gmos

So far, mankind survived and it seems we are not really that stupid when compared to an average Athen's citizen 2500 years ago (not to mention slaves, uneducated women then...)
It will be the same with AI but in the meantime, the same incredibly stupid and ignorant people who ran scared at the slightest sight of change for milleniums will continue to scream "the end is near".