ChatGPT may stage an eerie takeover in human conversations
They say that conversation is an art because after all, it involves communication. When there is communication there is an exchange of thoughts, ideas, and feelings. The exchange should be pleasant because the goal is to result in understanding. When two or more people arrive at an understanding then a beautiful story is created and therefore the so-called “art” is achieved. On the other hand, being a uniquely human experience, conversation may seem like a simple thing, but like an art, it can sometimes be strange and pretty complex.
However, the above scenario is the traditional face to face activity. With the coming of the internet, communication and conversation become digital and through online. The face to face concept became, well, a lost art. With the fast-paced advancement in technology, the emergence of AI or artificial intelligence, conversation is being taken yet again to another dimension.
By this point, you’ve probably heard about ChatGPT, an AI-powered chatbot programmed to simulate human conversation. No software has ever been able to so convincingly provide human-like and detailed answers to inquiries before. For a while, we’ve asked the hypothetical question about what might happen if a robot could take over our jobs, but now the hypothetical is more real than ever.
ChatGPT, or Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer, can expertly generate realistic, human-like text about almost anything. English essays, news articles, computer code, and songs are all examples of what this bot can produce, and all from a simple prompt. The bot uses a dialogue format in which users can provide both simple and complex instructions, to which ChatGPT will provide a detailed response. It can also answer follow-up questions, admit when it made a mistake, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests—all of which makes it perfect for customer service.
ChatGPT can create written content very convincingly, concerning everyone from journalists to playwrights. Many fear that the bot will take away jobs from writers and creatives. Fortunately, as per a report by The Guardian, the chatbot currently still lacks the nuance, critical-thinking skills, and ethical decision-making ability required for journalism. Plus, its current knowledge base stops at 2021, meaning it has a limited knowledge of world events after that.
With the power to simply put in a prompt and get ChatGPT to write convincing college-level essays, many schools are concerned about an uptick in plagiarism. Some schools are already blocking the site from their networks and servers. Surprisingly, a 22-year-old computer science student at Princeton University, Edward Tian, developed an app called GPTZero which can detect when an essay was written by AI. It works by looking at two variables, perplexity and “burstiness,” and assigns each of those variables a score.
Griffith Institute for Educational Research director Leonie Rowan told Australia’s ABC News that ChatGPT has various positive dimensions for disadvantaged students who did not have access to tutors. It could be a big help, for example, for students with language backgrounds other than English. This AI chatbot is understandably scary for schools, but it’s also an opportunity for us to imagine new forms of evaluation. “Maybe this is a wake-up call that our assessments do need to be more individualized,” Rowan suggested.
Reference: ChatGPT: Unveiling the frightening potential of AI’s takeover in conversations (msn.com)
