A Democratic congressman Jake Auchincloss delivered in the U.S. House of Representatives a speech written by the ChatGPT chatbot. The Associated Press reports this.
The hearing concerned a bill to establish an American-Israeli AI center. According to the congressman’s office, this is the first time in history that a speech generated by an algorithm has been spoken on Capitol Hill.
Auchincloss said he asked ChatGPT to write a two-paragraph text describing the advantages of opening the center. He had to refine the prompt several times to get the desired result, the congressman admitted.
The legislator decided to read the algorithm-generated text to spur debate about AI, as well as its challenges and opportunities. According to Auchincloss, it is important not to let social networks outpace Congress’s response, avoiding a repetition of that scenario.
“I am the youngest parent in the Democratic caucus, and AI will be part of my life and could become a universal technology for my children,” he said.
The AI-generated text includes sentences such as: “We should collaborate with international partners […] to maintain the United States’ leading role in AI research and development.”
“There were probably about a dozen of my colleagues in the chamber. I bet none of them knew that a computer wrote this,” said Auchincloss.
The congressman says that lawmakers and other officials should not reflexively be hostile to the new technology. However, they should not wait too long to craft regulatory acts, he added.
According to the congressman, tech giants, smaller developers and universities should have equal access to cloud resources, data and cutting-edge algorithms. This will preserve a “public counterweight,” he says.
In January, Meta’s Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun called ChatGPT not particularly innovative, but well composed.
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