Why Do We Tell Ourselves Scary Stories About AI?

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In fall 2024, the best-selling author and historian Yuval Noah Harari went on the talk show Morning Joe. “Let me tell you one small story,” he said. “When OpenAI developed GPT-4, they wanted to test what this thing can do. So they gave it a test to solve captcha puzzles.” Those are the visual puzzles — warped numbers and letters — that prove to a website that you’re not a robot. GPT-4 couldn’t…Source