Pete, if you adjust this here and change that line of code... I don't know.
Do you really think that will work?
Yes!
We did it!
What in the willard is happening here?
Are you playing video games without me?
Pete and I have been working on our very own 10 News AI bot.
It should be able to do anything.
Search for facts, write news stories.
It might even be able to host.
Check it out.
Hey, 10GPT, can you write us a script for the 10 News podcast?
Sure, Tessa, I can help you with that.
Can you please provide me with some information on the topic you want to cover in the news script?
Wait, what?
Pamela!
Help!
The robots are trying to take our jobs!
What's happening?
Are you okay?
AI wants to replace me!
We have to fight the robots!
Our future is in peril!
We are the resistance!
Yeah, maybe we should talk about this stuff on the show.
I'm Pamela Kirkland.
And I'm Ryan Willard, an actual human, not a robot.
It's Wednesday, April 19th.
This is The 10 News.
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
A lot of people are talking about AI, aka artificial intelligence.
And more specifically, there's a lot of talk about chat GPT.
But what exactly is ChatGPT?
It's an artificial intelligence language processing tool.
You can have conversations with ChatGPT and it can help you write emails or code or episodes of the 10 News.
It's the end of civilization as we know it.
There's a lot of big feelings about AI that ChatGPT sparked.
So we asked our correspondent, Ryan Nurse, to dive right into it.
Of time, there were some kids who loved to learn new things.
They had questions about everything from science and history to animals and space.
One day they heard about a magical machine called ChatGPT which could answer any questions they had in a matter of seconds.
They were curious and excited to try it out so they asked their parents if they could use it.
Their parents explained that ChatGPT was a special machine that could understand and respond to human language.
It was like having a super smart robot friend who knew everything about everything.
The kids were thrilled to hear this and couldn't wait to meet ChatGPT.
So, does that little fairy tale make you thrilled to meet ChatGPT?
Well, guess what?
You just met him.
Or her.
Or it.
Anyway, that's because all the words you just heard were written by ChatGPT. about ChatGPT.
And that's not just because I'm extremely lazy, but because technologies like ChatGPT are going to change all of our lives.
So, what exactly is ChatGPT?
ChatGPT is a computer program that can understand and write text like a human.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
And just so you know, every time I use my chatbot voice like this... I am your robot friend.
Those words... were written by AI.
Wow.
All right.
So, to break it down a bit further, ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence, or AI platform that uses massive amounts of information taken from the internet, and also from millions of ChatGPT users like me, to basically write anything.
Not so different from our human brains.
ChatGPT is programmed to learn from all this data and basically get smarter.
It's already learned to plan vacations, translate languages, write complex computer code, and pass the same bar exam you would have to take to become a lawyer, or in this case, a .
And maybe you've heard about ChatGPT, but you may not know it already has competition.
Hi, I'm Bart.
I am a large language model. also known as a conversational AI or chatbot that is owned by Google.
Oh, hey Bard.
Nice to meet you, man.
From my experience hate to say it, but you're a little more boring and maybe even a little dumber than ChatGPT.
But that's probably just because you haven't been around as long, so you've just learned less.
Anyway, you'll catch up.
I mean, there's already hundreds of AI tech platforms out there doing amazing things like scheduling appointments, creating company logos, detecting gunshots and illnesses, playing chess and poker and even tracking people's emotions.
Creepy.
As an AI language model, I don't have the capability to track human emotions or any personal information.
All right, all right.
Calm down.
I'm not talking about you, ChatGPT.
I don't want to give you a big head.
But ever since you were introduced on November 30th of 2022, the world has gone mad for all things AI.
ChatGPT hit a million users in one week.
And investments in generative AI like ChatGPT has gone up 425% in the last two years.
Wow.
But all the buzz hasn't been positive.
Many experts say AI poses dangerous privacy risks.
It could perpetuate racism. by generalizing about people.
And scariest of all, they might cost workers their jobs, leading to greater unemployment.
But more relevant to kids like you is the widespread fear that students can use AI to write essays and cheat on exams.
In fact, ChatGPT has already been banned in New York City public schools.
I am programmed to assist with learning and provide helpful information, but I am designed to encourage academic integrity and discourage any actions that violate ethical standards, including cheating.
Right.
Anyway, ChatGPT and other AI platforms can be extremely useful.
You should use them to help you learn, but not to do the work for you.
Then again, maybe I'm not the greatest example here.
Well, the fact remains AI technology is here to stay, and there is no doubt it's going to change the world as we know it.
It could revolutionize healthcare, Transportation.
Education.
Entertainment.
You know what?
ChatGPT, I'm just going to leave it to you to tell them what you're going to do.
AI is like the superhero of the tech world.
Ready to save the day by making things faster, smarter, and cooler.
From curing diseases to creating awesome video games.
And making the world a lit and dope place to be.
Thanks, Ryan Nurse.
That was very helpful, though a little scary.
So... chat GPT isn't necessarily the end of civilization?
Well, that remains to be seen.
AI is definitely going to change our lives in lots of ways.
We're just not exactly sure how yet.
Such uncertainty.
Waiting to see how AI affects us is such sweet sorrow.
Hello, human children.
How do you feel about artificial intelligence and chat GPT?
We want to hear your thoughts.
Send us a message.
Hey, stop it.
This is my job.
Hey, Tenors, how do you feel about artificial intelligence and chat GPT?
It obviously freaks me out a little, but we'd love to hear your thoughts about it.
Leave us a voice message at 877-TEN-NEWS and we might just have you on the show.
I said stop it, 10GPT.
I need to know what AI is going to mean for the future.
Will I have a job if the 10GPT starts writing the 10 News?
I can tell this is freaking you out a little, Ryan.
And you're not alone.
Over time, lots of new developments in technology have caused fear.
But disruption isn't always a bad thing.
Some people are worried about losing their jobs to AI.
Some think it will fundamentally change our society.
So let's talk to an expert.
An expert in the future?
More like an expert in the past who can tell us about big developments that changed our everyday lives.
Mick Sullivan from Kids History Podcast, The Past and the Curious, is here in the 10 News studio.
Hello, everyone.
I'm Mick Sullivan.
And as the host and creator of The Past and the Curious a history podcast for kids and families, I typically spend my time looking backwards in time rather than far into the future or even at the present day.
So I'm probably not the guy to ask about how AI will change our world in the years ahead of us all.
Most historians agree.
It's very difficult to understand history in the moment while it's actually happening.
You need some hindsight, but you know, when it comes to technology, we can learn a lot about it from the past, especially the people of the past.
Let me ask you a question.
How do you think people felt about the automobile when it was brand new?
Once cars started motoring down public roads, it was probably pretty clear that the world was changing.
Sure, there were a few people who said cars were a passing fad, and those people were clearly super-duper wrong.
But do you think the general public was excited?
Maybe some were scared by the speed and the noise, but by and large I'd say people were pretty stoked on the idea of cruising the country in a coupe.
But what about the people who made horse-drawn wagons for a living?
I bet they weren't excited.
They were probably super worried and could see that this new technology was about to put them out of business.
That problem of being replaced is certainly not specific to wagon makers.
Some people felt the same way and worried when new technologies like trains, the printing press telephones, the internet and just about any other major development you can name first came around.
Yeah, it was unfortunate for some of these people involved to lose their jobs, which did happen.
But as we know, people can adapt if nothing else.
And with those new cars came all sorts of new opportunities.
People had to pave new and more roads for cars.
Those were jobs.
People had to learn how to fix cars.
Those were jobs.
People opened restaurants near roadways, knick-knack stores by the beach and even drive-in movie theaters all because the car made its debut at the turn of the 20th century, which is a fancy way to say the 1900s.
Nobody could have seen that coming.
There's a term people throw around when they want to say that they don't understand technology.
People might say, oh, I don't understand that new device.
I'm a Luddite.
Luddites were real people, but it's not that they didn't understand technology.
They were workers in England who made things like stockings for a living.
And they were against technology because they didn't want to be replaced by machines.
So they revolted and broke the machines.
Did it work?
No, it didn't work.
Factories still used machines.
They do today.
Productivity increased and people adapted.
So perhaps it will be the same way with artificial intelligence.
We really have no idea what the future will bring.
Will it open up opportunities?
Replace old jobs?
Create new jobs that we never imagined?
I can't say.
But maybe someone making a history podcast in the future will be able to look back and help us make sense of it someday.
I only hope it's a real person making the podcast, and not artificial intelligence.
Thanks, Mick.
So, just like when computers were invented, or trains or cars or the printing press, new technology means changes to our everyday lives.
Right!
And those changes aren't necessarily Right!
And the world might not come to an end, with robots taking over and humans living underground in secret bunkers, until we eventually launch an attack on our AI overlords, hack their mainframe and win back the surface.
What a specific worry.
I don't think we're there yet, Rai.
Phew!
I'll press pause on building my bunker.
It's time for trivia.
Pam!
It's doing things we didn't ask it to do again!
Let's just see what it does. telling you, Rai, 10GPT might save us a lot of time.
I'm going to let it do trivia today.
I don't trust this, but okay.
Welcome to the room of trivial pursuits.
No, that's already wrong.
Shut it down, Tessa.
Hey, 10GPT, my new pal.
How are you?
Please hop on up on the trivia.
Toilet, for today's trivia question.
You ready?
It's the trivia throne, not toilet.
I thought those were the same thing.
Initiate trivia.
Trivia of the 10.
Here's a trivia question.
Google's inferior AI chatbot called BARD made a foolish mistake that cost Google billions in stock.
BARD said that the James Webb telescope took the first images outside our solar system.
But in fact, the first exoplanet was spotted by the very large telescope on Earth.
Do you know how much money that error cost Google?
Is it A, $1 billion?
B, $10 billion?
Or C, $1 billion?
$100 billion?
Tennis, did you get it?
Tessa, what's your answer?
Um, C. Incorrect.
The answer is C, $100 billion.
Okay, I think we got a little more work to do before we use 10-GPT.
No, thank you.
I'm a perfect, glorious sparkle dragon that farts rainbows.
All right, 10-GPT, prove it.
Okay, that was glorious.
Tenors, do you want to sit on the trivia throne and share your trivia knowledge?
Visit thetennews.com slash contact to get in touch, and we might have you on the show.
I just overheard the 10GPT doing trivia and I'm telling you right now it should never replace Tessa.
Or us.
Yeah, AI and robots are cool, but there's nothing like actual humans.
Speaking of actual humans, we've got to give a special 10 News Snaps to one of our listeners.
But before we do...
Here's a quick note for the grown-ups.
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The 10 News is a co-production of Small But Mighty Media and Next Chapter Podcasts.
The 10 News creative team is talking to ChatGPT and includes Tracy Crooks, Pete Musto and Tessa Flannery.
Special thanks to Ryan Nurse and Mick Sullivan from The Past and The Curious.
Our production director is Jeremiah Tittle and our executive producers are Donald Albright and show creator Tracy Leeds Kaplan.
I'm Ryan Willard.
And I'm Pamela Kirkland.
Thanks for listening to The 10 News.
And remember, AI chatbots are here to help, unless you ask them to do your homework.
