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ChatGPT has all the answers.
Google Search has all the answers too.
Libraries used to have all the answers too.
In essence, it’s the delivery that makes the difference and the convenience to obtain answers. For most of us, it’s better to be read a story, than to read a story. Articles and reports are swirling around talking about students submitting ChatGPT generated essays, as well as tools that are able to detect ChatGPT content.
As I read the generated content from ChatGPT, I’m amazed at the immense knowledge it has and the content it generates. From observations, it’s good at churning out solutions and answers that may not be the finest but convincing enough. Ask the same question a few times, and it tries to deliver more content.
ChatGPT reminds me of writing General Paper essays, where we explore arguments from both sides for a fair representation of our thoughts. It’s a fair statement giving the context of things, the background and the landscape. Yet, there is something lacking in the midst of the accurate yet random expression of words.
The strength in any conversation or speech is in having an opinion. A train of thoughts, a subtle repeating pattern of ideas drives home the salient points in a message. Will ChatGPT achieve this sentient ability to orate, raise our excitement, make us blush and flag our emotions? It would be equally amazing and worrying because we can be swayed as seen in recent times with the publicity of ChatGPT’s conversational abilities.
We are worried about weapons of mass destruction and we are concerned about leaders who wield them. Yet, we advance technologies in a flash these days without moving our ethical governing frameworks fast enough to regulate the potential sentient abilities of artificial intelligence (AI). It took humans thousands, millions and billions of years to evolve. Computers and artificial intelligence took decades and perhaps years to reach perfection and can potentially wield powerful tools that can shape or destroy our world.
Sounds pessimistic? Jobs are already being replaced, teaching avenues and methods are rapidly shifting to inquisitive forms to spark creativity because repetitive tasks like scientific experiments or calculations can now be done in micro or milliseconds. Even creativity is now artificially enabled with AI-generated art.
A friend is telling me video deepfakes are passe and deepvoices are the in-thing with AI being able to replicate our voices. Be careful with the next phone call because that may not be our parent, child or spouse who is speaking.
Imagine the scenario where everyone is using the same AI and yielding the same answers. Assuming we are fully reliant on it, won’t our societies become monolithic in our thinking?
What happens to diversity in thoughts and ideas? New ideas or competition to overcome challenges arise when there is scarcity in resources. A spoon-fed world with AI may curtail our ability to think differently.
It is a future of exciting opportunities, infinite possibilities and potential pitfalls.
Are we ready to have AI wield us and make us yield?
I certainly hope for a symbiotic relationship where we can all enjoy our work with great support from AI.
I am Mar Vin Foo🌿.
Thank you for putting the horse before the cart.
Images from Gerd Altmann from Pixabay