What the f*ck is ChatGPT?
If you're anything like me. Which for your sake, I hope you aren't. You may have reluctantly stumbled back to your desk in January to find the next great innovation is in town. ChatGPT.
And apparently, ChatGPT means business.
In the past month alone:
- French universities worried about plagiarism have banned ChatGPT's use on campus.
- Ryan Reynolds asked ChatGPT to write an ad for Mint Mobile
- A programmer made himself a girlfriend using AI and ChatGPT. His real-life girlfriend promptly asked him to destroy it.
Of course, the usual talking heads are out. Blessing us all with their LinkedIn carousels. "ChatGPT is the most powerful tool in the world”, "10 reasons why people are using ChatGPT all wrong", ”How to create 365 days of content in 24hrs” etc.
Oh, how lucky to be alive, in the era of ChatGPT.
Some have boldly rebranded themselves as "ChatGPT experts". Perhaps Rome would have been built in a day, if only they had used ChatGPT.
In general, I'm skeptical of overnight sensations, excluding Justin Bieber. So, with all this in mind, allow me to do our due diligence.
ChatGPT is an unbelievably valuable tool. But not the most powerful.
According to Google, the most reliable source of facts after TikTok, ChatGPT is a generative language model chatbot developed by OpenAI based on GPT-3.5.
Loosely translated to human English (for now), ChatGPT is basically an artificial intelligence chat that has been trained and designed to hold natural conversations. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests.
To its credit, the possibilities for innovation with ChatGPT are endless. The AI can write code, poems, songs, and even short stories in the style of a specific author. It can function as a tool for generating outlines for articles (like this one!) or even entire novels. GhatGPT will essentially provide a response for any task that can be answered with written text.
It's not an understatement to say: ChatGPT has the potential to accelerate automation in white-collar life. And that is precisely my problem with it.
Do we really need more unoriginal social media content? Should the artistic exercise of novels, poems, and songs be outsourced to AI? The whole motivation behind an automated society is the lowering of tools. To pave the way for more creative ways of working, for all. The argument of leaving the grueling work to robots has been used before. ChatGPT feels a tad more invasive than this. The motive seems devastatingly ulterior. Proceed with caution.
My hot take
ChatGPT is an unbelievably valuable tool. But not the most powerful. With everyone hopping on the bandwagon, the most powerful tool is to create things for yourself. Since the dawn of the internet, there has always been the opportunity to create original ideas, content, and work. Since the dawn of ChatGPT, these may finally stand out.
PS: Who is to say this article wasn’t written by ChatGPT?!? If you’re reading this, it may be too late.
