The Fear Of AI Is Overblown, And Here's Why – OpEd – Eurasia Review

The unprecedented popularity of ChatGPT has turbocharged the AI hype machine. We are being bombarded daily by news articles announcing humankind's greatest invention--Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI is "qualitatively different," "transformational," "revolutionary," "will change everything,"--they say. OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, announced a major upgrade of the technology behind ChatGPT called GPT4. Already, Microsoft researchers are claiming that GPT4 shows "sparks of Artificial General Intelligence" or human-like intelligence--the Holy grail of AI research.