Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 13th 　News analysis: ChatGPT, change and risk

　　Xinhua News Agency reporter Peng Qian Huang Kun

　　ChatGPT, the big language model of American artificial intelligence company OpenAI, has reached 100 million monthly active users in January about two months after its launch, making it the fastest growing consumer application in history. Relevant experts predict that ChatGPT is not only a breakthrough of a new generation of chat robots, but also will bring great changes to the information industry. However, the risks brought by it, such as academic fraud, technology abuse and public opinion security, cannot be ignored.

　　The prototype of a new generation operating system platform

　　Write imaginative poems in multiple languages, write operational programs, quickly generate abstracts of papers, automatically make data tables, correct grammar and expression errors in articles, and write a news summary of the week … … ChatGPT can not only understand many human problems and instructions, but also smoothly carry out many rounds of dialogue, and also show its ability to solve a variety of general problems in more and more fields.

　　ChatGPT also easily passed some professional-level tests that are difficult for human beings: it recently passed the Google Code L3 (entry-level) engineer test; Passed the final exam of MBA in wharton school and the postgraduate exam of four courses in the University of Minnesota with B and C+ respectively; Passed the qualification examination of American medical practitioners … … The industry described its birth as an "iPhone moment" in the era of artificial intelligence, which means that artificial intelligence has ushered in a revolutionary turning point.

　　"The success of ChatGPT should not only be regarded as a breakthrough of a new generation of chat robots, but also pay attention to the revolution it has brought to artificial intelligence and even the entire information industry." Huang Tiejun, dean of Beijing Zhiyuan Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, said in an exclusive interview that the past decade in the field of artificial intelligence was a decade of deep learning, but there was no outbreak of mobile Internet and cloud computing level in the industry as a whole. "The emergence of ChatGPT is epoch-making, and the big model +ChatGPT has formed the prototype of a new generation of operating system platform."

　　Huang Tiejun said that ChatGPT adopted the route of "big data+big computing power+strong algorithm = big model" in the technical path, and explored a new paradigm in the direction of "basic big model+instruction fine-tuning", in which the basic big model is similar to the brain, and instruction fine-tuning is interactive training, and the combination of the two realizes language intelligence approaching human beings. ChatGPT applies the training mode of "reinforcement learning based on human feedback", and uses human preferences as a reward signal to train the model, which makes the model more and more consistent with human cognitive understanding mode.

　　"This kind of AI can help human beings to make real creation, especially to help human beings improve their creative efficiency, such as improving the efficiency of obtaining information or putting forward novel ideas, and then people can solve their authenticity problems. The improvement of creative efficiency will have great benefits and various influences, which can change the world information pattern. " Chen Xiaoping, director of the Robotics Laboratory of China University of Science and Technology, told reporters.

　　Initiate a new round of artificial intelligence technology competition

　　The advent of ChatGPT is triggering a new round of science and technology competition in the field of artificial intelligence. In the early morning of February 8th, Beijing time, Microsoft launched the latest version of bing search engine and Edge browser supported by ChatGPT, and announced that it would "reshape search". All products such as Microsoft’s Office and Azure cloud services will be integrated with ChatGPT across the board.

　　In the early morning of February 7th, Beijing time, Google also released Bard, the next generation dialogue AI system based on Google LaMDA model. On the same day, Baidu officially announced that the large-scale model project "ERNIE Bot" under development is scheduled to complete internal testing in March and then open to the public. China enterprises such as Alibaba and JD.COM also indicated that they are developing or planning to develop similar products.

　　The global competition in the field of artificial intelligence big model has become increasingly fierce. Huang Tiejun believes that ChatGPT is expected to evolve into a new generation of operating system platform and ecology in the future. This change is similar to the transformation of mobile Internet from personal computer to mobile phone, and most of the computing load will be taken over by the new generation information infrastructure with big model as the core. This new paradigm will affect all levels from application to infrastructure, causing great changes in the whole industrial structure. The ecological dispute between the big model and its software and hardware support system will become the focus of the information industry in the next decade.

　　It is worth noting that ChatGPT sometimes "talks nonsense in a serious way", and there are many problems such as factual errors, blind spots in knowledge and common sense deviations. It also faces the general risks of artificial intelligence such as compliance of training data sources, bias in data use, generation of false information and copyright disputes. Many world-renowned academic journals have updated their editorial guidelines, including that any large-scale language model tool will not be accepted as a signed author of research papers.

　　"The signed author of an academic paper must meet at least two conditions. One is to make ‘ Substantive contribution ’ The second is to be able to bear relevant responsibilities. At present, these two conditions ChatGPT (and other AI systems) are not satisfied. " Chen Xiaoping said.

　　ChatGPT also has the potential to be used in public opinion information warfare. The research team of McGill University in Canada used the previous generation model GPT-2 of ChatGPT to read about 5,000 articles about the COVID-19 epidemic broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and then asked it to generate "counterfactual news" about the crisis. Even OpenAI warns users who use ChatGPT that it "may occasionally generate incorrect information" and "generate harmful instructions or biased content".

　　"In order to solve these problems, we need to control the application boundary of ChatGPT while developing technology, establish the management regulations for the content generated by artificial intelligence, and evade the use of artificial intelligence to generate and disseminate false and bad content. At the same time, strengthen the development of governance tools and identify the content generated by artificial intelligence through technical means. This is an important prerequisite for content detection and work confirmation. " Tang Jiayu, vice president of Beijing Ruilai Smart Technology Co., Ltd. said.

　　8. It is better for a family to stay together than anything else.

　　For a time, Teresa Teng was really like her hit "Laugh at the sight of you". Her singing career brought her happiness and encouragement, even to her own surprise. It turned out that many dreams in her heart could be fulfilled by singing. She seems to know that her little shoulders can shoulder the money-making skills that her parents can’t, so she tries hard to help her family and improve the plight of the whole family. In fact, the road to music was not so smooth at first, but she was not afraid of hardship and was very resigned.

　　Mother Deng remembers that Coca-Cola in the United States had just entered Taiwan Province, and all of a sudden it set off a hot sale frenzy. Almost every child wanted to drink a bottle to relieve his hunger and satisfy his curiosity. Once they finished singing and were on their way home by bus, Teresa Teng suddenly asked, "Mom, I really want to drink a bottle of Coca-Cola, just one bottle." Perhaps she was used to frugality. Without thinking about it, Deng’s mother immediately said intuitively, "No, that’s a luxury that only rich people can drink." Teresa Teng didn’t say a word. She accepted her fate. She knew that saving a seven-dollar bottle of Coca-Cola would make her family eat better.

　　Deng’s mother came home and spent the night in trouble sleeping. She felt that she was too stingy. The Deng family can live a relatively comfortable life at this time. It is all because of the little girl’s singing and rushing to make such a situation. The mother did not consider satisfying her little desire, but also flatly refused her. What is even more lovely is that the child is not angry at all, nor does it take credit. What else can such a child say to thank her? Early the next morning, Deng’s mother went to buy a dozen Coca-Cola and put it in the refrigerator. She hugged her and said, "You can drink as much as you want!" Teresa Teng was so happy that tears fell down, and immediately shared them with his brother and younger brothers. It can be seen how low her desire is and how simple and honest people are. She was fully happy about this little thing for several months.

　　Teresa Teng has nothing to say about his feelings for his brother and younger brother. Since childhood, the three brothers have loved and protected her very much, and they also vaguely know that this singing sister has the ability to make money that they can’t reach. How extravagant it is to eat eggs when the family is poor! But every morning, when my sister comes back from hanging her throat by the river, my mother will wash a raw egg with warm boiled water to moisten her throat and protect her throat. For a long time, she has the privilege of drinking a cup of egg honey juice with a whole egg every day. Her brothers have never been greedy and protested. They think it is right to be kind to her, because the whole family is her hardest!

　　When Typhoon Gloria ravaged Taiwan Province, Luzhou was badly flooded. At that time, the Deng family lived in the family house at No.109, Zhonglu Village Middle Road. Suddenly, the water jumped to the lintel, and the whole family climbed up the small attic higher from the ground. Deng’s father tried his best to keep the water from rushing in. Deng’s mother was busy packing up what she had, and three brothers were responsible for protecting Teresa Teng. None of the children cried, and the whole family quietly clung to it and stayed together to tide over the crisis. This made her little mind realize that home is the most important thing, and it is better for a family to stay together than anything else. In the future, although she lived abroad, she always tried to get home to be with her family during the Chinese New Year holiday every year, and she spent it happily at home until the Spring Festival before her death.

　　After the flood, every household was waiting for Luzhou Township Office to distribute relief food, and Deng’s father went to help distribute it. Several brothers and sisters just dragged the mud at home, cleaned up the debris and cleaned up the garbage. Mother Deng saw it in her eyes and comforted her in her heart. This accidental accident triggered her desire to buy a better house for her family, and to live higher to avoid flooding. When Teresa Teng’s income was just enough to buy a house, the Deng family bought the first house in Beitou Danfeng Mountain, and the whole family moved out of Luzhou.

　　Mother Deng said that it’s good to have your own house, and the sense of belonging to a home is extremely happy. No matter how late they run to the karaoke bars for a show, the mother and daughter must rush back to their homes and rarely stay out in hotels. Deng’s mother recalled: "In my life, Lijun really had nothing to say to her family, but I, as a mother, never thanked her in person. After she left, I just stayed at home alone and saw that everything in front of me was her shadow, the house she bought, the clothes I wore, the quilt I covered at night and even the cups I used at home were all bought by her, so I especially wanted to say thank you, but she couldn’t hear it.

　　Buying a house, because of its practicality, has become Teresa Teng’s natural introduction to financial management. She doesn’t play stocks or invest in business. When she has enough money, she just buys a house, and she prefers the higher ground. Later, in Stanley, Hong Kong (so that she belongs to the dragon), in Singapore, in Paris, France, in Beverly Hills and Taipei, the houses she bought were all high above the ground, perhaps because of the shadow of the typhoon when she was a child!

(Source: Xinmin Evening News)