A.I. War is upon us.
A.I. is nothing new but it was a shocking refresher when ChatGPT was released to the public in November 2022, that we have to deal with A.I. one way or the other. You cannot ignore it, it is here to stay.
ChatGPT has taken the internet by a storm by having 1 million unique users within 5 days. Netflix took 41 months. Facebook took 10 months. Instagram took 2.5 months.
Not sure what ChatGPT is? Let’s ask ChatGPT what ChatGPT is.
Yea yea…. Blah blah blah… The best way to find out what it is by simply trying it. I have tried it too and it was downright scary. This resonates with most people thinking this tool is “dangerous”, “scary” or “too powerful”.
It writes an essay for you. It creates a summary for long articles. It creates and fixes code for you.
Yes, humans can do that too and they might do it better but ChatGPT did all of that in under 3 seconds, non-stop, without breaking a sweat.
I asked ChatGPT to write an article for me. I didn't like it. I asked to rewrite it using a different style. I still didn't like it. I asked again to rewrite using a different writing structure. I asked again to write a better conclusion. I asked again to include examples and references. I asked again and again and again...
The scariest part is that ChatGPT was still able to finish an article faster than I could ever do. After all, it only takes 3 seconds to write an article. You can ask it to re-write 10 times, it would only take 30 seconds. You can ask it to re-write 100 times, it is still faster than any human writer.
Is this the end for all humanity? Is A.I. going to take over our jobs? Is Skynet finally upon us? More importantly, is A.I. a friend or a foe? After all, it was created to make human lives better. Right? ... right??
How did we come to this? A.I. is a simple chat bot that can answer the most basic questions only. It would never understand the complexity involved in human speech, different context and the intentions behind it. Or so we thought.
Boy, did we create a monster?
P.S. The cover image was created by A.I.