This Tweet Is Proof Lawmakers Aren’t Ready for the AI Boom

On Sunday night, Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) tweeted a bold claim about ChatGPT, saying the chatbot had “taught itself to do advanced chemistry” even though chemistry knowledge wasn’t “built into the model” and nobody “programmed it to learn complicated chemistry.”

“It decided to teach itself, then made its knowledge available to anyone who asked,” Murphy added. “Something is coming. We aren’t ready.”

The only problem: Nearly every single thing Murphy wrote in that tweet was wrong. AI researchers and academics were quick to let him know, inundating his replies and quote tweets with the kind of righteous sound and fury reserved for the Internet’s main character of the day.

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