Mark Cuban speaks on stage at The Future of Entertainment by Fireside at the 2022 SXSW Conference and Festival at JW Marriott Austin on March 14, 2022 in Austin, Texas.
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Billionaire Mark Cuban believes artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots like Open AI’s ChatGPT are still in the early stages of development. But the potential impact of this new technology is “like nothing I’ve seen before,” he tells his CNBC Make It.
On Monday, Cuban compared ChatGPT’s debut to the introduction of HTML in the early days of the Internet. in a tweet.
“We all knew it had a lot of impact, but we made it look a lot more complicated than it really was,” Cuban says of HTML.
Contextually, HTML (short for Hypertext Markup Language) can be thought of as the building blocks of the Internet. It is the basic coding language used to build websites and determine how they appear to users. HTML was created by British computer scientist Sir Tim Bernersley in his 1980s and is still used today along with other coding languages.
When the internet took off in the 90s, “any kid who learned html and built a website for a business was considered a tech genius,” Cuban tweeted.
Today, there are many websites that teach you how to code with HTML, and it’s considered an important entry point into the world of coding, reports the University of California, Berkeley.
According to UBS, ChatGPT has reached 100 million monthly active users just two months after its launch, making it the fastest growing consumer application in history.
As generative AI tools grow in popularity, companies are also talking about how they can take advantage of the new technology.
As more people become familiar with AI chatbots, Cuban believes, “AI chatbots will go from being perceived as difficult to being perceived as basic and accessible to everyone.” .
But Cuban believes there is something missing in the current conversation about developing AI. As more companies invest in large lang models (LLMs) like ChatGPT or create their own, they need to differentiate themselves, he told CNBC Make It.
“They don’t all have the same answers, they don’t all have the same expertise, they don’t all have the same value to different types of users,” he says. .
Companies also need to decide how much they are willing to pay to acquire the data and intellectual property (IP) that their AI chatbot learns to create responses.
“The owners of the most influential IP are not going to give it away for free, and they probably won’t give it to anyone. They want to be paid,” Cuban said. say.
“It is assumed that LLM can read and write about almost any topic and can accommodate almost any kind of search, so it will be financially impossible to cover all bases.”
While this is a hypothetical situation, Cuban says it could slow AI progress as it applies to LLMs in the future.
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