Chat GPT
Chat GPT, Helpful or Hurtful
AI is becoming smarter and smarter. Half a century ago the concept of self-driving cars was a far-off dream, but they are already being completed across the globe. Now AI has also begun to replace writing. For a long time being able to write about a topic was something a robot could never do. Now AI can mimic people so well that it almost resembles creativity. Audible, which is a company owned by amazon that sells E-Books, has been flooded with AI made books that can be made within seconds using software. The most popular of these software as you probably know is Chat GPT. It has quickly spread to every aspect of writing and is putting a lot of things into question. Pretty much every school immediately banned the site and everything else of it's type. This raises the question of whether Chat GPT should be allowed to continue.
What are the Concerns?
As with most new AI there are a lot of problems. The main glaring problem is that chat GPT cannot distinguish between being correct and incorrect. Since AI cannot figure out what is just fake news or trolling so it just does not have a filter. Chat GPT just gobbles up whatever it can find and spits it out in a format that matches the search.
What are the benefits?
There is a reason ChatGPT and it's kin have become so widespread as of late. They are a shortcut that can let people skip hours of writing in a matter of minutes with little to no effort. To not use such a tool is waste literal days of effort throughout your life. It can produce essays, emails, speeches, and even social media posts. In the workplace it could save valuable time for your team to work on other projects. It can write emails that communicate the information perfectly, it can make a sales pitch to nail your presentation, or it can even aid in coding.
Why are teachers banning it?
The main reason schools are banning Chat GPT is because it makes a basic skill potentially void. Why spend hours upon hours throughout school learning to write essays if a program can do it for you better than you in a few seconds? It can potentially invalidate an entire subject that has been in the school system for years. If schools stop teaching that subject then it will bring hundreds of thousands of teachers jobs into question. Another reason is that the students will be losing a basic skill. If we start to rely on AI writing everything, then in a hundred years there might be no one who knows how to write more than a paragraph. There is a point where automation is hurting people more than it is helping.
Conclusion
ChatGPT is a very useful tool. It can mimic human writing very well, completely removing the writing process. This comes with the cavoit of potentially being entirely entirely wrong or writing in an unwanted way. ChatGPT is a very useful tool, however it is only when it is used as a tool and not as a crutch. ChatGPT can make millions of people’s lives easier, but it can also cause us regress as a society. We need to find a middle ground to help us get to the endpoint and instantly get us there. If we can find that then we will grow as a society with AI.
Hi Henrey,
ReplyDeleteI found your blog to be very intriguing, but I was confused by a few points within your writing. First, it's hard as the reader to see your stance on the topic of ChatGPT in he ways you describe it, so, I'd love to know where you stand with the topic. Second, I wanted to bring up your point of, "It can potentially invalidate an entire subject that has been in the school system for years.". I think you are on the right tracks when it comes to the concerns that are tagged along with this program, but I also think we need to take a set back and look at the core of our writing skills. We learn basic writing skills from a very young age, and these skills are typically developed first on paper. Now, I do agree with you that when individuals start crafting papers online and use these sites as "crutches" then, their skills as writers could face the penalties of plagiarism. Yet at the same time, as these sites were created, extensions were also created to detect the use of these programs especially at a college level. So yes, I believe that these topics can be looked at in a negative or positive light, and that we have to educate individual's on these programs so that they are used as tools and not "crutches". Overall, nicely done with the presentation of information on your blog!