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"How many of us today are able to distinguish between a text
produced by human intelligence and a stream of thoughts ...
produced by an artificial intelligence algorithm?" centrist
senator Marco Lombardo asked colleagues.
His speech, on the subject of various bilateral deals with
Switzerland, was produced by Microsoft Corp-backed OpenAI's
GPT-4 chatbot, the senator told Reuters on Thursday.
He said his staff "took a couple of hours" to feed the necessary
information into the software, which then produced the speech
"instantaneously".
The leader of Lombardo's Azione party, Carlo Calenda, said on
Twitter that what the senator said in the chamber was
"impeccable", but added: "It is not yet clear to me whether we
are looking at progress or at a step back."
Lombardo said he had been impressed by recent developments in
AI, but called for a better understanding of the technology in
order to strike the correct balance between regulation and
innovation.
Italy has taken centre stage in recent months in worldwide
regulation efforts on AI, with the country's data protection
authority temporarily banning ChatGPT and starting a probe over
the application's suspected breach of privacy rules.
On Wednesday, European Union tech chief Margrethe Vestager said
she believed a draft voluntary code of conduct for generative AI
could be drawn up "within the next weeks", with a final proposal
for industry to sign up "very, very soon".
(Reporting by Federico Maccioni; Editing by Alvise Armellini and
David Holmes)
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