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ChatGPT Part 8

Public opinion on ChatGPT is divided between advocating for its democratization and calls for regulation to prevent misuse. While ChatGPT has the potential to augment human capabilities and improve various sectors, concerns about job displacement and the ethical implications of AI persist. Ultimately, the challenge lies in leveraging ChatGPT effectively while recognizing its limitations and the importance of human creativity and emotional intelligence.

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ChatGPT Part 8

Public opinion on ChatGPT is divided between advocating for its democratization and calls for regulation to prevent misuse. While ChatGPT has the potential to augment human capabilities and improve various sectors, concerns about job displacement and the ethical implications of AI persist. Ultimately, the challenge lies in leveraging ChatGPT effectively while recognizing its limitations and the importance of human creativity and emotional intelligence.

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As to public opinion, two trains of thought appear to be at play.

The first is support for the full democratization of ChatGPT,


which is essentially what’s happening now because OpenAI lets
users participate in training the model by using it however they
want. The second is a call for regulating ChatGPT and other gen-
erative AI use to curtail crime, scams, cyberattacks, bullying,
and other malevolent acts accomplished or scaled up with these
tools.

ChatGPT is a very useful tool, packing a lot of promise and poten-


tial to do a lot of good for individuals, societies, governments, and
organizations. Indeed, I argue that this is a first step in human
augmentation. While ChatGPT is not integrated into the human
body, it can be used to augment human thinking, understanding,
work, and creative endeavors.

Competing with ChatGPT for your job


At the moment, much of the fear people are experiencing about
ChatGPT is caused by unknowns striking closer to home. Is
­ChatGPT going to take my job? Spread disinformation or propa-
ganda, causing my political party to lose or resulting in a jump in
crime or protests in my neighborhood? Will it bring an end to my
privacy and dignity? And ultimately, can I defend myself and my
career against a machine that’s smarter than I?

We have these fears because ChatGPT appears to be all too famil-


iar: We have met generative AI and it is us.

It so closely resembles human behavior because ChatGPT’s


­education came in large part from the internet, where humans
are known to spew the vilest thoughts, lies, conspiracy theo-
ries, propaganda, criminal activities, and hatefulness in its many
forms. Plus, yes, some true and useful info.

At best, the internet is a mixed bag of human debris, and AI


­models have already shown a taste for garbage. You might recall
the AI chatbot called Tay, which Microsoft tried to train on social
media in 2016. It soon went rogue on Twitter and posted inflam-
matory and racist tweets filled with profanity. Its controversial
and offensive efforts to socialize like humans caused Microsoft to
kill it a mere 16 hours after its debut.

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After that and similar AI training outcomes, and because we know
we humans are a scary bunch, the prevailing assumption is that
AI acts and sounds like us so it must be equally frightening and
potentially more terrifying.

Indeed, everything wrong or bad about humans tends to be trans-


ferred to AI. But the same is true of everything right and good as
well as a whole bunch that’s a little of both.

ChatGPT can help diagnose illnesses and search for cures. It can
help students learn more in highly personalized ways, making
their education more efficient and less frustrating. It can help
nonprofits find new ways to raise money, cut costs, and drive
their causes. Good and helpful examples of potential ChatGPT
contributions are almost endless.

Even so, there is the near universal concern over the potential
arrival of merciless machine overlords. Fortunately, they’re not
coming. The type of AI that this fear conjures is general AI or
artificial general intelligence (AGI), as it is called in the science
community. It exists nowhere outside science fiction and human
nightmares. It may be a thing one day, but it’s not here now.

Certainly, ChatGPT is not AGI. It does not think. It’s not smart.
It’s not human. It’s software that mimics humans by finding pat-
terns in our speech, thoughts, and actions. It calculates probabili-
ties based on those patterns. In short, it makes informed guesses.
Those guesses can be brilliant or undeniably wrong, truthful and
insightful or devious and a lie. But none of it requires the software
to think.

For these reasons and more, ChatGPT can affect or replace some
jobs, much like analytics and automation can. But it can’t outright
replace all workers because it can’t do all the things humans can
do. You still have a competitive edge over ChatGPT.

What might your competitive edge be, you ask? Any number of
things: creativity and intuitive intelligence; the ability to find and
analyze data that does not exist in digital form; the innate ability
to get meaning from word and image conversational context and
nuance; and the ability to make neuron connections where none
previously existed. The ability to connect the dots or to think out-
side the box separates human from machine.

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Human creativity in writing prompts makes ChatGPT produce
unique and complex outputs instead of rote generic fare. An intel-
ligent and creative human makes ChatGPT perform at its best.

Humans also uniquely possess emotional intelligence and empa-


thy, two powerful abilities that influence people and shape events
and outcomes. And the list goes on.

Your brain is also very energy efficient. Three meals a day and
a couple of snacks buys a lot of thinking power. Deep-­learning
models like ChatGPT, on the other hand, suck up enormous
amounts of computing power.

The threat to your job isn’t ChatGPT but the people using ChatGPT
and other AI tools. It’s up to you to learn how to use these tools to
increase your earning potential and your job skills — and to pro-
tect yourself while using ChatGPT and other AI-fueled services.
Reading this book will get you off to a strong start.

Redefining the Chatbot with ChatGPT


and ChatGPT Plus
AI assistants and AI-assisted chatbots have been on the market
for some time. I remember attending Microsoft’s data and AI tech
immersion workshop in 2019 and marveling at the ease and speed
with which I built a bot on Azure public cloud using Virtual Assis-
tant Solution Accelerator. Granted, professionals were on hand to
help, but by and large it was a relatively easy exercise. Google too
had a toolbox filled with AI and bot makings. So did other vendors.
The mix of tools and possibilities was enticing and exhilarating.

Prebuilt, pretrained, customizable AI models were already on


the rise as an essential element in data and AI democratization.
ChatGPT pushed AI democratization over the top and into the
­
­public’s hands.

True democratization means almost anyone can understand


and use the technology. Smartphones and GPS applications are
examples of fully democratized technologies. ChatGPT is fast
­following suit by spreading like wildfire worldwide. Students,
artists, healthcare professionals, legal aides, regular people on a
lark, writers, and professionals from every industry and business

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size are using ChatGPT today. And more will use it tomorrow and
every day thereafter. It’s not a trend; it’s a seismic paradigm shift.

People intuitively grasp this much about ChatGPT. But it may be


a little less obvious how ChatGPT has redefined chatbots. After
all, chatbots have used natural-language processing to chat with
people for a good while now. So have digital assistants such as
Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, and Cortana.

Previous AI-enabled chatbots have several limitations, including


a lack of understanding of context, no decision-making capabil-
ity, so-called conversations limited to canned responses, and only
short dialog exchanges due to memory issues.

By comparison, ChatGPT understands context, can make deci-


sions, and can process a long thread of dialog to continue lon-
ger conversations in a humanlike manner. Further, ChatGPT’s
responses change with each prompt and prompt variation. It
doesn’t use canned responses, meaning it doesn’t deliver a lim-
ited number of predetermined responses consistently triggered by
specific keywords.

For the most part, ChatGPT has clear advantages over previous
chatbots. But sometimes these same characteristics can also be
disadvantages.

For example, Microsoft limited ChatGPT integrated in Bing to a


maximum of 5 questions per session and 50 per day per user after
the search engine went on an unhinged spree insulting, lying, and
emotionally manipulating users. This behavior proved something
that many humans learned long ago: Talking longer often leads
to trouble. Microsoft contends that “wiping the conversation after
five minutes keeps the model from getting confused.”

Google’s Bard, an AI rival to ChatGPT, didn’t fare much bet-


ter. Bard cost its company $100 billion after it provided wrong
answers in a demo video that shook the stock market’s confidence
in the bot’s competence.

Many people believe that generative AI such as ChatGPT and Bard


will eventually replace search engines such as Bing and Google.
I think that outcome isn’t likely, not only because of generative
AI’s shortcomings but also because many good uses for search
engines remain. Saying that ChatGPT will replace Google is like
saying TV will kill radio or computers will kill paper documents.
The world doesn’t tend to go all one way or the other.

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