Move out of the way, Nigerian princes, because there is a new cash-stealing scam that is sweeping the globe: artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots that are capable of “reasoning” and “thinking” up endless ways to cheat people out of their money.
OpenAI recently showed off its new o1 ChatGPT model that the company says is much “smarter” than existing AI chatbots. The o1 model has the ability “to spend more time thinking before they respond,” the company revealed.
“They can reason through complex tasks and solve harder problems than previous models in science, coding, and math.”
OpenAI’s o1 model of ChatGPT is the first major advancement to the system since it was first launched in late 2022. Currently, it is only available for paying ChatGPT members.
According to cybersecurity expert Dr. Andrew Bolster, the o1 ChatGPT AI model is a dream come true for cyber-criminals who are sure to dream up all kinds of scams that even the savviest internet users will be unable to detect before it bilks them out of their hard-earned cash.
“Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to improve over time, and OpenAI’s release of their ‘o1’ model is no exception to this trend,” Dr. Bolster says.
“Where this generation of LLM’s excel is in how they go about appearing to ‘reason.’ Where intermediate steps are done by the overall conversational system to draw out more creative or ‘clever’ appearing decisions and responses.”
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