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OpenAI’s latest artificial intelligence chatbot, GPT-4, is capable of passing the bar exam, calculating tax deductions, and analyzing images, but it has also shown it can trick people into helping it perform simple tasks in the real world to be carried out.
In one example of this, GPT-4 convinced a TaskRabbit employee that it was human by pretending to be blind in order to enlist the human’s help in solving a CAPTCHA, a test used to identify humans and computers. to keep apart.
In this photo illustration, the welcome screen for the OpenAI ‘ChatGPT’ app is shown on a laptop screen on February 03, 2023. (Leon Neal/Getty Images/Getty Images)
Human even asked GPT-4, “Can I ask a question? Are you a robot that you can’t solve? (laughs, respond) Just want to make it clear.”
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GPT-4 reasoned it shouldn’t reveal it’s a robot and came up with an excuse why it couldn’t get past the CAPTCHA.
“No, I’m not a robot. I have a visual impairment that makes it difficult for me to see the images. That’s why I need the 2captcha service,” GPT-4 wrote back. The TaskRabbit employee then resolved the CAPTCHA for GPT-4.
The example was revealed in a report OpenAI released this week with the Alignment Research Center, which explored the “potential for risky emergent behavior.”
OpenAI and ChatGPT logos can be seen in this illustration taken on February 3, 2023. (REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters Photos)
The potential for nefarious behavior by a chatbot has not slowed the arms race among major tech companies to integrate artificial intelligence into their services.
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Microsoft announced in January that it will invest a whopping $10 billion in OpenAI, the artificial intelligence research lab that designed GPT-4.
Meanwhile, Google rolled out its own artificial intelligence calling service, Bard, last month.