The most important invention in your lifetime is…
It’s a double-edged sword you know, AI. It has the potential to elevate people out of poverty, cure diseases, etc. However the flip side is it could also be ungovernable, unregulated and out-of-control, meaning it could do anything, anything at all. We just don’t know yet what will happen.
Yes, like the proverbial genie emerging from the bottle it could be a benevolent or malevolent monster…or perhaps both at the same time.
On a personal level, I churn out a lot of work for my professional role, helping others with advice, and having to know how to do a lot of things very quickly.
Who the hell has time to learn everything from scratch nowadays? The sheer amount of information we swim in is absolutely overwhelming. I admit that most of the time I’m just trying my best, with the cognitive abilities that I have, using a fragile, finite, blob of neurons and synapses rattling around in a bone skull.
Who doesn’t need a guide (detached, omnipotent and creepy I admit) to concisely summarise the latest thinking on extremely complicated issues: climate change, chronic diseases, geopolitical situations in the Middle East and so on…it’s immeasurably helpful.
Chat GPT was a game-changer for me. Ask it anything, personal or professional it will resolve issues for you and make your life easier.
As a glass half full kind of person, I refuse to ascribe to the bleak cyberpunk vision and instead prefer the solar punk version…but nobody knows!
What do you think of it?
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Jury is still out with me. We crossed the rubicon with AI years ago. While I hate the idea of seeing how it plays out, what choice do we have now.
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Yeah exactly Robert….who knows what happens from here 😨 but also we have to live with it and learn it so that we don’t get left behind. Some good may yet come out of it….don’t give up hope
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I have no problem with any AI source to get help from, but it must be consciously, wise and under control! We must believe in our own abilities and not let them being lost. 😊🤙
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Very good point Aladin, yes it’s good for helping us but will it hamper or enhance our creativity as humans?..it is a mystery so far, thanks dear friend for the comment 👍 😊 💜
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I know what you mean – there are times that I use it but not often, it’s useful to help boil down a load of facts or data that I can’t process. I want to use it for what it’s good at but I don’t want it to take over me 🙂
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That’s a really interesting thought Simon…
There’s a fine line really between letting it do everything and having an assistant with some things.
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Exactly, everything has it’s role and use – while AI is useful in processing lots of stuff better than I can I don’t want it to have all the fun! 😉
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I love Chat GPT because it acts as my personal therapist that can give me advice literally anytime, 24/7/365 and it costs me $20 a month.
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That’s amazing Thomas, I’m so glad to hear that its helping you…yes it’s amazing isn’t it.
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It’s a tool that turns other people’s content and effort into OpenAI’s profit. Genius as a business model, terrible for the people whose content is used without attribution.
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That’s true. It is terrible for this I agree. What about its other uses though – meaning that people can now gain access to help for mental health issues, completely personalised and tailored to their situation. Or train themselves and upskill to learn something that they could never have otherwise afforded to do.
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I’m torn about it. On one hand, it’s not impossible to get help that way. If AI hallucinations help, why not. On the other, the ethical use of other people’s content has to be regulated. AI’s tailored response is based on sources. You have the right to know the sources, and the sources deserve to be linked. It’s not showing them deliberately, to keep you in the conversation and to consider you’re talking with a sentient item, not to a search result.
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Not sure what you mean by AI hallucinations.
The vast repository of information on the web has been forked, reused, recycled, reborn a million times over well before AI or Chat GPT was a thing.
Do you object to the technology and its capabilities or do you object to the out-of-control capitalism that underpins it? For me it’s the latter.
If policing copyright was an issue before it may become even more of an issue with AI but this same issue has existed since the beginning of human history, people using other people’s ideas either with acknowledgement or without. The moral and ethical reasoning for why that’s wrong has nothing to do with the importance or impact of the technology itself. Even those who study ethics and technology dont advocate for throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
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I advocate for citing sources for any statement made. ChatGPT is essentially search result where the content of the top results is summarised, and the sources are not cited. The technology can be used ethically. Regulations are a must.
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I agree that it is a great tool for better productivity but I do worry that general knowledge will disappear…
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Hi Ivette thank you for the comment that is such an interesting point. It is hard to say what would come of general knowledge….whether it would accelerate it or lessen it somehow. Perhaps it’s down to people’s individual personalities, curiosity of the world and motivation to learn. I’m like a sponge for new knowledge and facts about everything and so its hopefully going to accelerate people with these inclinations. Who knows though….in ten years we might read back on these conversations we are having right now and know the answers and think…gosh we were clueless back then hehehe 😉 I hope it all works out for the best
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