AI, chatbots and more, a questionable technology, how does it work and what can it do for us?

The world has run wild since ChatGPT came out in November 2020 as an AI-based Chatbot. But what is it, what can you do with it, and are there competitors ?

How does it work?

Firstly, it's like an answering machine. You type in a question, like you would in Google and the AI machine types some text back. The text is written word for word instantly. The text it writes comes from a big database, where the AI machine puts in a lot of information scraped from the internet. The more information it can feed itself, the better the answers will be. Not only text but also images can be produced with artificial intelligence. Some AI bots can even write code and correct code. AI technology can also mimicking things, like making songs and videos. It can even let dead people speak in a video based on some pictures and some voice recording of that person. Many other apps and organizations use AI to their advantage. Like pharmaceutical companies, the army and big tech companies. AI technology is not always free because it's a big business.

Questionable technology

Some questions arise with this technology.

Information

First, is the information correct, or is it all made up with nonsense?

Safety

Is AI safe? Can it harm us? Can it produce weapons or shut down our electricity or energy? Can it produce computer viruses and real viruses? Will it be able to hack into systems?

Stoppable

Can it be stopped? At this moment, humans can still shut the system down manually. But will we be able to do that in the near future? Will AI be so smart that it can copy itself onto another server before we can shut it down, so it keeps doing whatever it's doing?

Comprehensible

Will AI still be comprehensible for us, or will AI make its own languages and codes to communicate with itself in an incomprehensible way that only AI will understand it?

These questions will be answered in the future, and let us hope it goes well.  I think it will all depend on what humans want to achieve with this technology and what rules and restrictions we apply to AI technology.

The main players

ChatGPT: the first free AI Chatbot, a product by OpenAI.

Google Gemini: the second free AI Chatbot also know as Google Bard an earlier version

Microsoft Copilot: another Chatbot that will be integrated into the Windows Operating system.

Dream.ai: a website with AI that can produce art based on what you type.

DALL-E 3: another art producing AI website.

Simplified.com: a free text writer that can write text for you based on some words you provide.

Typetone.ai: another free text writer that can write text for you based on some words you provide.