Artificial intelligence
Member delivers chatbot-written speech in US Congress
“AI will be a part of my life”: Representative Jake Auchincloss, here addressing the Congress building in Washington
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And no one noticed: Democratic Rep. Jake Auchincloss became the first known member of the US Congress to deliver a speech in Parliament authored by artificial intelligence.
US Congressman Jake Auchincloss made history with a speech in the House of Representatives – not because of its content, but because of its author: Auchincloss had his speech written by the chatbot ChatGPT. He is the first known MP to have delivered a speech in Congress written by artificial intelligence.
The reason for the democrat’s appearance was the submission of a bill to establish an American-Israeli AI center in the USA, which should serve as a hub for research and development in the field. With the lecture of a text created by ChatGPT, he also wanted to stimulate the debate about the challenges and possibilities of artificial intelligence, Auchincloss told the Associated Press (AP) news agency his speech. He wants to prevent the same thing happening with the topic of AI as with the rise of social media, which started small and spread faster than Congress could react with its legislation.
“I’m the youngest parent in the Democratic Group,” said the 34-year-old. “AI will be a part of my life and it could be a multipurpose technology for my kids.”
Chatbots such as ChatGPT, which was developed by the company “Open AI” and has been available free of charge since the end of November, enable users to specify subject areas and certain parameters for which the software formulates answers, speeches, essays, application letters, poems, letters and all kinds of other texts. which should sound as if a human had written them. In view of the technical advances in the field, this is getting better and better – and brings with it problems, for example in the field of education. ChatGPT recently made headlines when it was announced that the bot passed an exam from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.
“You are Jake Auchincloss, a member of Congress”
the US broadcaster WBZ NewsRadio claims to have received a copy of Auchincloss’ instructions to ChatGPT for his speech. Accordingly, the deputy instructed the bot as follows:
“You are Jake Auchincloss, a member of Congress. Write 100 words that you will present in the House of Representatives! Topic: the importance of the US-Israel Joint Center for Artificial Intelligence bill that the Congressman will introduce again in this legislature. “
Auchincloss included a link to the bill and a related press release, then entered the content objective:
“Explain to the audience the importance of international collaboration in AI research!”
He chose his writing style:
“Formal Speech”.
WBZ also published a copy of Auchincloss’ speech:
“Madam Chairperson, I stand here today because I plan to re-introduce the United States-Israel Artificial Intelligence Center Act, a bipartisan piece of legislation that will cement a mutually beneficial partnership between the United States and Israel in artificial intelligence research This is a crucial step forward at a time when artificial intelligence and its implications are taking center stage in the public discourse.
We must work with international partners, such as the Israeli government, to ensure that the United States maintains its leadership in AI research and development and responsibly explores the many opportunities that emerging technologies offer. The US-Israeli Artificial Intelligence Center Act will allow us to harness the expertise of both countries and draw on each other’s resources to research and develop breakthrough AI advances.”
“There were probably about a dozen of my colleagues in the plenum,” Auchincloss reported to the AP news agency after his speech. “I bet none of them knew it was written by a computer.”
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One should not be instinctively hostile to artificial intelligence, but neither should one wait too long before drafting measures or new laws to regulate the technology, the MP urged. “It’s not about intelligence in the human sense,” quotes him from the US broadcaster CBS News. “They’re models with more than a trillion parameters that predict the next word in a sentence or the next pixel in an image. They’re incredibly good at that and getting better all the time. But they’re prediction engines, they’re not intelligence. They are tools.”
Sources: WBZ News Radio 1030, CBS News, Associated Press