AI lectures at Berkeley to explore possibilities, implications of ChatGPT

AI experts from Berkeley and beyond will explore the ramifications of ChatGPT on science and society in a spring lecture series. Since its launch last November, the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT has been an international sensation, with people using the platform to do everything from writing essays, computer code, poems and research proposals to planning vacations, flirting with Tinder matches and creating malware. According to UC Berkeley computer scientist Ken Goldberg, the computer program's facility with natural language -- particularly its ability to consistently demonstrate creativity -- is forcing many AI experts to rethink what machines may be capable of and even our understanding of intelligence. "ChatGPT may catalyze a paradigm shift," said Goldberg, the William S. Floyd Jr. Distinguished Chair in Engineering. "Something changed very dramatically with the performance of ChatGPT, compared with previous large language models, and everyone, including experts, is asking, 'What does it mean? Where do we go from here?'"