Artificial Intelligence Robots: A Dazzling Technical Revolution That Predicts an Uncertain Future

The new version of the chatbot “Chat GPT” at the end of 2022 brought about a new revolution in the field of artificial intelligence around the world, to the point that it was described as one of the most important inventions in the field of technology in the past decades.
This program, developed by the American startup company Open AI, supported by Microsoft, has captured the attention of everyone, from technology experts to students and media professionals, and social media sites have circulated pictures of excerpts of the chatbot’s answers that have aroused admiration and astonishment.
The technology attracted millions of users shortly after its launch, and OpenAI confirmed that more than a million users used ChatGPT during the first week of the public beta version being revealed in November 2022. Google quickly announced in March 2023 the launch of the AI-powered chatbot Bard, an indication of the fierce competition in this field.
Chatbots, in general, provide people with the opportunity to talk to machines on almost all topics, and provide quick and surprising answers that are difficult to distinguish from human answers. They have even become widely used, starting from obtaining advice and guidance in the context of customer service in a number of fields, to composing music and writing poetry.
Because of its great ability to respond quickly, voices have been raised warning of the danger of “Chat GPT” and other chatbots, and the possibility of them providing misleading answers that may seem correct at first glance, and they may also become a means of illegally disseminating data. In addition to threatening the continuation of professions such as journalism and writing, and the effects of this on the education system, and the possibility of it getting out of control in the future.
So how do these new AI systems work? What is the context of their emergence and development and the extent of the potential they provide? What are their dangers to humanity? How have they sparked the AI race and, in turn, revived voices calling for caution in efforts to develop this field?

Chatbots: The Data Revolution That Mimics Human Conversations
The chatbot experiments developed in the past ten years have not been able to truly impress as much as “ChatGPT” did in its two latest versions at the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023. Previous chatbots based on artificial intelligence remained limited in their answers, and the automated aspect often appeared in them. They forced the user to choose from many different answers, but the situation has changed today with the development of the technologies used, and their acquisition of a greater dose of flexibility, intelligence, and unusual interaction.
These robots, including ChatGPT, have a huge amount of data, whether available on the Internet or in public sources, to use in training algorithms that enable them to simulate human conversations, whether written or spoken. They can be used as a substitute for humans to answer some questions, especially those that require collecting a huge amount of information. Chatbots also understand natural human language, and are now used by a number of institutions in their applications and websites, and even behind phone lines as an automated answering machine.
With the development of artificial intelligence technologies, this electronic interaction has acquired more human capabilities and knowledge, and robots have become able to differentiate between users’ preferences, which helps them provide more accurate recommendations, which may sometimes exceed their expected needs. These systems can be equipped in the future with memory features that will increase the accuracy of answers and their consistency with previous answers.

Artificial Intelligence Betting: Tech Giants’ Battle for the Future
The race to develop chatbots has revived competition between giant companies in the field of artificial intelligence, especially between Google and Microsoft, as this field is considered the future of technology, and controlling it is key to developing their investments, the growth of which has slowed in recent years.
Big companies that do not keep up with the pace remain at risk of finding themselves behind in their leadership in a short time. Google, the leader in Internet search, may lose this leadership to Microsoft, which is cooperating with the emerging company OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, to integrate the chat robot into Windows computer systems, and use it within its search engine Bing and the Internet browser Edge, and in some Office applications, in order to help edit and translate texts easily.
Google and its parent company Alphabet quickly responded with their chatbot Bard, which is also based on the latest AI trends. Observers believe that Bard’s best feature is that it relies on the latest information in its answers thanks to its LaMDA language model developed by Google, although it has been criticized for some incorrect answers.

Application integration.. a race to the details of daily life
Integrating artificial intelligence applications into daily vital details has become a focus of interest for technology giants, who are spending billions of dollars on this. For example, Meta is racing against time to provide Facebook with one of the data processing and rapid automated interaction technologies.
Meta announced its LLaMA language model as the foundation of its AI system, noting that it features a “smaller and better” language model than competitors and can be trained on 20 different languages to help researchers, government entities, civil society, and academia.
Apple also wants to develop its well-known assistant, Siri, and provide it with the latest innovations in artificial intelligence, to increase the efficiency of its devices in the future, and maintain the competitiveness of its voice assistant, which provides assistance to users while using the phone, in cars, and inside homes.
Chinese companies are also preparing to enter the competition arena, announcing the latest trends in chatbots they have developed, such as “Chat GPT” and “Bard.” All eyes are primarily on “Baidu,” the Chinese search giant, which has recently intensified its investments in the field of self-driving cars, although technology experts expect that Chinese applications will not be available to everyone, as this may conflict with Beijing’s directions that impose strict censorship on Internet content.

Data Bank.. Loopholes behind the facade of dazzle
Chatbots can produce texts that resemble human texts, through their precise algorithms that analyze a huge amount of data at a very high speed, in a way that is not very different from the way the human brain works. This huge amount of data is the strength of these robots, and at the same time their weakness.
Artificial intelligence is not capable of innovating from scratch like the human brain, and instead needs hundreds of terabytes of processed data to learn from and add to. Also, each version of these programs remains linked to the entered data up to a certain time limit, and what happens after that the robot is not aware of.
For example, we find that “Chat GPT” is unable to provide any answers that include any current developments or events, while “Bard” excels in this point thanks to its ability to access the latest information on the Internet and in the “Google” search engine, and it can also verify its information and sources by resorting to well-known sites such as “Wikipedia.”
The memory problem is still present in the latest version of “Chat GPT 4”, and observers say that upcoming versions may overcome this problem, which will make it possible to overcome the current flaws associated with different answers to the same question, and improve interaction during long conversations that require improving answers and learning from mistakes.

Stop Development.. Petition to Prevent Slippage of Technology Goals
ChatGPT has managed to attract 100 million users just two months after its launch, making it the fastest-growing app in the history of technology, surpassing the most popular social media sites. For example, it took TikTok about 9 months to reach 100 million users, while Instagram took at least two years.
Faced with this rapid spread, and the emergence of a wave of competition between countries and major global technology companies to develop this technology, a number of technology experts, including Elon Musk, signed a petition to halt the development of artificial intelligence programs for at least six months, until protection and monitoring systems are adopted. More than a thousand people joined this petition, with the exception of the CEOs of OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft.
There are concerns that this technology could deviate from its goals, as chatbots, for example, could be exploited for illegal activities, by harnessing existing platforms to carry out fraud or commit cybercrimes, which is what the European Police Agency “Europol” has warned against.

Privacy breach: alarming concerns
Many countries did not stand idly by in the face of this technological boom, and decided to move alone, awaiting an expected collective response. Italy was the first Western country to issue a decision to temporarily ban “Chat GPT”, and the Italian Privacy Regulatory Authority decided to open an investigation into the company that developed it, due to concerns that the chat robot violated privacy rules, and provided it with a large amount of data without legal justification, to be used in training its algorithms.
The Italian authorities also asked OpenAI to provide a mechanism to verify the ages of users, to ensure that minors do not enter, and to set controls for its use by this group, who are often exposed to answers that may not be consistent with their age and level of understanding of matters.
The European Consumer Organization also called for the acceleration of the issuance of the Artificial Intelligence Law, and demanded that all major AI chatbots be investigated, as Italy did. It is worth noting that some countries basically block access to the chat platform with “Chat GPT”, and some of them propose alternative local programs subject to the authorities’ supervision, at the top of these countries are China, Iran, North Korea and Russia.

Killing creativity and threatening jobs... tomorrow's concerns
We can only imagine a different world tomorrow with the presence of these advanced robots based on artificial intelligence. This near future has become truly worrisome due to the repercussions of this technological development, and this abundance of information flow and ease of access to it, affecting vital fields and basic professions for humanity.
The education sector finds itself in the eye of the storm, as students’ heavy reliance on technology has led to a kind of dependency and lack of self-reliance, and this will be further exacerbated by chatbots, which will lead to a decline in self-thinking abilities, the ability to solve mathematical problems, similarity of answers and a lack of creativity. The use of artificial intelligence has also led to a lack of social interaction between students.
This development also threatens the teaching profession itself, as the need for it may decline more than ever due to the possibilities of self-learning. The professions of authorship, writing, and journalism may also disappear, in addition to public service jobs, customer service, financial accounting, and other professions related to everything administrative and office-related, as artificial intelligence robots excel in most routine and repetitive tasks.
Some artificial intelligence experts indicate that 20% of the jobs that humans occupy today may be replaced by chatbots such as “Chat GPT” in the future, especially jobs that do not keep pace with technological development. We are talking here about no less than 375 million jobs over the next ten years.
On the other hand, optimists believe that the development of chatbots will not completely eliminate these jobs, and can instead develop positively, provided that they are accompanied by skills that keep pace with the rapidly changing society. This requires a huge effort to train workers and organize continuous training courses in new technologies and how to deal with them.

Robot Talk.. Facts narrated by the disturbing knight of the future
We cannot end this report without testing the ChatGPT chatbot, and here we asked him a question: Can a robot outperform humans? And this was his answer without any modification:
“Robots that rely on deep learning and artificial intelligence can perform better than humans at certain specific tasks. For example, robots can improve their performance at games, mathematical calculations, and data analysis faster and more accurately than humans can achieve.
However, robots still struggle to achieve some of the skills that humans have, such as the ability to think creatively, deal with emotions, and understand social and cultural situations. In addition, robots still need human guidance in some situations, meaning they are not a complete substitute for human labor in all areas.
In general, it can be said that robots can outperform humans in some tasks and fields, but they are still considered tools controlled by humans, and they need humans to deal with some other complex aspects of daily life.”
This was the answer, in a clear and largely correct language, which really prompts us to pause for a moment at the extent of the development witnessed in this field. The fear of artificial intelligence is justified, and today it has turned into something like welcoming a new era whose true form is unknown. Will humans ever lose control over the machine? Will it start acting on its own, and control the fate of humanity?
Questions that may seem like the stuff of fantasy or science fiction movie scenarios, but these capabilities that we are discovering day after day, and the artificial intelligence’s simulation of human behavior and its superiority in speed and storage memory, really make us worry about the future.
The justifications for this concern seem more serious today since the first clear victory of the machine over the human mind in 1997, when the famous chess player “Gary Kasparov” lost to the computer “Deep Blue” developed at the time by “IBM”. Today we see how man has become paralyzed in the face of the capabilities of the electronic mind, after 25 years of development and innovation during which humanity has experienced the fastest technological development ever.

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