…The recent development of Open AI’s Codex (Chen et al., 2021) which lets users accurately generate and complete computer programs, forms an incipient indication of a future where the most challenging reasoning tasks which require a logical generation of information, could be turned over to the machine. To any actor with enough computing power and access to advanced models like these, this would mean the capability to develop novel software tools which tilt the balance of information dominance in cyberspace. But in terms of influence, there could be far deeper implications of the rise of generative models, such as the process of training these models could also generate in these models an understanding (Karpathy et al., 2016) of the world. Another concerning and emerging reality is that the generative AI models based on Transformer architecture, like the GPT series, will be feeding into the rise of “no code platforms” and highly optimised computational generation of advertising content (Floridi & Chiriatti, 2020)…
