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A few days after the midwife of OpenAI and, let’s face it, the Nvidia GPU introduced ChatGPT to the world, I began experimenting with the AI-generating platform. I asked him to write about a subject I loved, but in my own unique way. In a tweet, I made a joke about being obsolete.
After a year, I haven’t become obsolete, and not many journalists have lost their jobs due to ChatGPT or AI in general (although some publishers have attempted and failed miserably to utilize it to replace writers). It’s not that some media outlets haven’t experienced job loss or unemployment as a result of ChatGPT and its copies, but there has yet to be a clear, large-scale cause and effect .
In the year since its emergence, ChatGPT has seen incredible growth as well as upheaval (Sam Altman is still the CEO, right?) and made many doubt their livelihood, among other things. Just two months after launch, I went on vacation, and I still clearly remember speaking to a retired police officer who was concerned about the job prospects of his young adult children in a world where ChatGPT was automated. This man had little interest in technology or artificial intelligence.
Rarely has a new technology evolved so quickly from being the focus of the media and technology industry to becoming widely known and interesting to the general public.
We think of ChatGPT as an entity in the same way we think of celebrities. After a short period of time, we discovered that the confident knowledge of the Large Language Model (LLM) was in fact a sometimes disorganized and confusing mass of hallucinations and false information. At first we were excited and we couldn’t wait to see what information it will drop in response to our requests. When ChatGPT was accurate, it was incredibly precise; when he wasn’t, it was shockingly inaccurate.
However, I believe I should have seen a year ago that, despite ChatGPT’s ability to emulate originality and even attempt to emulate my writing style, it has been largely unsuccessful. Although, especially in those early days, he often ran out of power, creativity, and ideas, he could do the occasional haiku or poem, help with game programming, and even contribute to script creation. cinematographic. When it didn’t, it was just repeating concepts from its original data sources – all user information. In a sense, we were all reading our own words – they were just rearranged to sound different.
Of course, the uninspiring responses I received from the first ChatGPT pale in comparison to today’s version, which is powered by GPT 3.5 (free version) and GPT-4 Turbo. I remember when I asked ChatGPT for suggestions on how to improve the iPhone, he responded by relying only on what was already known in the technology field and made no discoveries new. In essence, ChatGPT only knew what we knew.
Without a doubt, the current version of ChatGPT and all the secrets OpenAI may have up its sleeve pose existential problems that the first chatGPT did not deserve. However, there may be a reason why I and many other creators are still standing, it seems to me. Programmers, artists, writers, designers, filmmakers and musicians are creating new mediums at the same pace as artificial intelligence advances. Sometimes they use AI technology directly, and other times they take a different approach.
I still don’t think AI can match the ineffable quality of the human creative mind and its products; it’s like a unique water brand. You can always tell when something wasn’t made by human hands because of the signs you see, read, or hear. It’s beauty sometimes, worrying flaws other times (six fingers, anyone?).
Although ChatGPT started an AI revolution a year and a half ago, it wasn’t the end for you or me. Not yet, anyway.
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