OK, now I’m truly conflicted! It is getting increasingly difficult to cope with the converging vectors of human obliteration. So far this AM I’ve learned that global warming could result in Greenland’s ice melt raising ocean levels 23 feet. A disaster, but looking on the bright said, should this occur, having a beach front could possibly increase my property value. However, I must also view this in the context that we are under the global threat of extinction in the form of attacks from extraterrestrials, as cited in here; https://blog.physics-astronomy.com/2023/07/the-dark-forest-theory-explains-why-we.html . As we near the end point, what’s the possibility that AI could be force that deflects the other two annialation forces and ultimately save humanity?
Oh boy. I remember reading this six months ago, without any practical experience in these tools (GPT3 and Dall-E), and thinking, "Yup, this is going to be a growing trend." I, too, found the AI-generated robot texts a bit stilted and, err, robotic, but perhaps that was what was intentional, and the prompts you shared did support that. I pondered about your concerns and found them worrisome. How much of our creativity is going to be replaced by computer-generated outputs, a product of algorithms that scour massive amounts of real (i.e., human-generated) creative pieces and produce "original" copy that mimics style and content to a point in the not-so-distance future, to be indistinguishable from something made by a flesh-and-blood creative.
Since then, I have been using and testing several writing AI products, such as GPT-3 and 4, ChatGPT, Dall-E2, Byword, godmode, MacGPT, and QuietQuill. And the results have been, well, unimpressive in some areas (such as story writing) and impressive in others (work-related output, such as lists of tasks, memos, invitations to events, and such). I realize that prompt writing is a skill that needs development to improve the outputs of these AI products. A poor prompt will produce unimpressive results, even if grammatically correct. For searching the web and databases of published works, the tools rely strongly on sources like Wikipedia, which for me, is a poor choice when accuracy and well-supported information are essential (most of the tools caveat on this point). Wikipedia doesn't meet my standards or accuracy (as a science-trained professional), and the AI tools' reliance on sources like it makes them less useful for me. One might as well continue to use Google and carefully and manually sort the search results based on the credibility criteria of the sources.
I'd say that about 1/4th of the daily output of news on my Flipboard page (which I manipulate to include specific topics of my interest, such as AI, photography, nature, of course, conservation, technology, art, etc.) is related to ChatGPT-related issues, primarily on prompts (how to write them, hints, examples, etc.). I expect to see soon in resumes things like "Certified GPT-prompt writer" or something like that.
In all, AI technology is evolving faster than I imagined. A year or two ago, only the AI insiders and Hollywood writers immersed themselves and brought us into the world of these robotic interfaces, figuring out how to make their outputs more human-like. It had the aura of science fiction and now is almost mainstream reality. They are succeeding but with a lot of input finetuning, so humans are still essential to the quality of the output. Will creatives soon become obsolete as the algorithms become better at learning and accessing sources of knowledge beyond the wikipedias on the web? To be seen, but I'm not very confident. Maybe…. I guess we'll see in a few months.
One more thing. I do know I'm going to hate to have to sort between human-written stories and robot-written ones. AI is making strides in writing news (a soon-to-be-released tool is on the horizon). The novels, movie scripts, paintings, and other creative elements I have enjoyed all my life carry with them and are infused by the stories of their creators to which they are indelibly linked. Without this connection to the creator's story, I would not enjoy their products as much, or even at all.
OK, now I’m truly conflicted! It is getting increasingly difficult to cope with the converging vectors of human obliteration. So far this AM I’ve learned that global warming could result in Greenland’s ice melt raising ocean levels 23 feet. A disaster, but looking on the bright said, should this occur, having a beach front could possibly increase my property value. However, I must also view this in the context that we are under the global threat of extinction in the form of attacks from extraterrestrials, as cited in here; https://blog.physics-astronomy.com/2023/07/the-dark-forest-theory-explains-why-we.html . As we near the end point, what’s the possibility that AI could be force that deflects the other two annialation forces and ultimately save humanity?
Oh boy. I remember reading this six months ago, without any practical experience in these tools (GPT3 and Dall-E), and thinking, "Yup, this is going to be a growing trend." I, too, found the AI-generated robot texts a bit stilted and, err, robotic, but perhaps that was what was intentional, and the prompts you shared did support that. I pondered about your concerns and found them worrisome. How much of our creativity is going to be replaced by computer-generated outputs, a product of algorithms that scour massive amounts of real (i.e., human-generated) creative pieces and produce "original" copy that mimics style and content to a point in the not-so-distance future, to be indistinguishable from something made by a flesh-and-blood creative.
Since then, I have been using and testing several writing AI products, such as GPT-3 and 4, ChatGPT, Dall-E2, Byword, godmode, MacGPT, and QuietQuill. And the results have been, well, unimpressive in some areas (such as story writing) and impressive in others (work-related output, such as lists of tasks, memos, invitations to events, and such). I realize that prompt writing is a skill that needs development to improve the outputs of these AI products. A poor prompt will produce unimpressive results, even if grammatically correct. For searching the web and databases of published works, the tools rely strongly on sources like Wikipedia, which for me, is a poor choice when accuracy and well-supported information are essential (most of the tools caveat on this point). Wikipedia doesn't meet my standards or accuracy (as a science-trained professional), and the AI tools' reliance on sources like it makes them less useful for me. One might as well continue to use Google and carefully and manually sort the search results based on the credibility criteria of the sources.
I'd say that about 1/4th of the daily output of news on my Flipboard page (which I manipulate to include specific topics of my interest, such as AI, photography, nature, of course, conservation, technology, art, etc.) is related to ChatGPT-related issues, primarily on prompts (how to write them, hints, examples, etc.). I expect to see soon in resumes things like "Certified GPT-prompt writer" or something like that.
In all, AI technology is evolving faster than I imagined. A year or two ago, only the AI insiders and Hollywood writers immersed themselves and brought us into the world of these robotic interfaces, figuring out how to make their outputs more human-like. It had the aura of science fiction and now is almost mainstream reality. They are succeeding but with a lot of input finetuning, so humans are still essential to the quality of the output. Will creatives soon become obsolete as the algorithms become better at learning and accessing sources of knowledge beyond the wikipedias on the web? To be seen, but I'm not very confident. Maybe…. I guess we'll see in a few months.
One more thing. I do know I'm going to hate to have to sort between human-written stories and robot-written ones. AI is making strides in writing news (a soon-to-be-released tool is on the horizon). The novels, movie scripts, paintings, and other creative elements I have enjoyed all my life carry with them and are infused by the stories of their creators to which they are indelibly linked. Without this connection to the creator's story, I would not enjoy their products as much, or even at all.