ChatGPT is an advanced AI-powered chatbot application that offers instant messaging and personal assistance to make your messaging experience smarter, more efficient, and more personalized. With ChatGPT, you can get instant answers to your queries and have real-time conversations with an AI-powered chatbot using natural language. The question that arises is whether this application will destroy our minds and stop them from thinking, or what?
Some thoughts on this topic, beginning with it's limitations:
First, it lacks the ability to be creative. Creativity in artificial intelligence is a tricky thing. So let’s talk about that for a second. Oxford defines creativity as “the use of the imagination or original ideas, especially in the production of an artistic work”. To understand why AI can’t truly be creative, we have to first understand that AI only operates within the parameters that it's been programmed to operate within. So creativity relates to the production of artistic work with an emphasis on originality which by definition means that it must work outside of fixed parameters. For something to be original, it has to be unique, and that can’t happen in the context of fixed parameters. Parameters are useful for creating factual answers to complex problems and questions. This is what we see as the value of Chat GPT. It has a wealth of knowledge and information, which it is then able to distill down and articulate in response to user inputs. It’s highly effective at doing this. But it’s only highly effective at doing this because it’s operating within the parameters that it was programmed with. If we ask it to operate outside of these parameters, it’s really not able to do that. So there’s our first limitation of Chat GPT: It can’t be truly creative.
Second, it lacks personal experience, and this is probably pretty obvious, but it’s worth mentioning anyways. If you think about some of the most popular media today, a lot of it is based around personal stories and experiences versus strictly factual information. So for example, we can read facts about the Holocaust, but that is very different from reading the personal experiences documented in Corrie Ten Boom’s critically acclaimed book, ‘The Hiding Place’. This is an inherent limitation of AI - it can provide facts and information, but it can’t provide the personal stories and experiences that a human can. And we even see the impacts of this on marketing, where a significant portion of marketing is story or testimonial based, which again, is very different from fact based marketing.
A third limitation is that, like any AI, it has a level of bias. Now there’s still a lot of research to be done into the specific biases of Chat GPT, but it seems that it tends to lean pretty liberal. There are also some preliminary examples of Chat GPT discriminating on multiple grounds. Now this is to be expected because we have to understand that the developers of AI technologies are not a representative sample of the overall population. Historically, AI engineers are predominantly male, predominantly white, and predominantly liberal. They are also generally well educated and, generally speaking, of a higher economic class than the majority of the population. Many people will argue that this is unavoidable and that, in many ways, is at least partially accurate. But it doesn’t take away from the fact that there is an inherent bias in all AI models, Chat GPT being no different.
It's also worth noting that this technology has existed for many years in some capacity. The big difference now is how accessible it is for everyday consumers (and not just top researchers), and how easy the UI (User Interface) makes it for individuals to use. My personal opinion is that it won't necessarily destroy thinking; however, it will change the way we think and change the scale of the things we think about. As an example, when calculators came out, some would have argued that the calculator would have replaced the need for learning math. Instead we've come to view the calculator as a tool that allows us to solve more complex problems that couldn't be solved manually. The same is true for computers, and I suspect the same will be true for AI. What we're going to need to get good at is asking good questions that allow the AI to produce relevant results. Otherwise we do run the risk of relying on this technology to think for us, instead of using it to assist in the production of new knowledge.
I believe that the use of AI applications like ChatGPT can bring many benefits to our daily lives. These applications can provide quick and accurate responses to various queries, offer personalized recommendations and support, and assist in various tasks such as language translation, scheduling, and more.
However, it is important to remember that AI is not meant to replace human thinking or creativity, but rather to augment and assist it. While AI can provide solutions based on data and patterns, it is still limited in its ability to understand complex human emotions, experiences, and contexts.
Therefore, it is important to use AI applications like ChatGPT responsibly and thoughtfully, understanding their limitations and potential biases, and keeping in mind the importance of human creativity and critical thinking in problem-solving and decision-making.
((Therefore, it is important to use AI applications like ChatGPT responsibly and thoughtfully, understanding their limitations and potential biases, and keeping in mind the importance of human creativity and critical thinking in problem-solving and decision-making.))
Of course we have to be within this understanding...
Hello Mohammed Z. Hassan
Do you mean that we need to emphasise more on creativity and critical thinking and decision-making in the education system? eg give more marks in assignments for those elements
A typical neural network with a large training sample and a well-found architecture, aimed at solving question-answer applications and nothing more. Smaller versions of such students develop in laboratory work on the course "neural networks".
GPT-4 can bring many benefits in all human activities. For example, based on GPT-4, you can create personal consultants, intelligent chatbots in various fields, code programmers, translators between various program codes and human languages, etc. In the next 30 years, based on the development of large languages, Models will update or cancel more than 80% person's current jobs.
Any neural network, including Chart-GPT, is trainable and owns only the information that a person has shown to it. This program is not self-taught! To understand something in life, a person needs 20 years, at least, and now the Chart-GPT program is still a child who knows some points, can speak, but in general does not understand and does not know life aspects. Hence, there is no great benefit for a person as a whole, except for individual simple technological operations. There is no need to make this program significant, it is still developing and now its result depends on computing and software technologies. It will soon run into huge complexity! An example is Google OK, when the speech aspect has not gone beyond the understanding of 70% in 20 years. Only in rare cases is there a 90% success rate.
ChatGPT offers researchers benefits such as quick information retrieval, idea generation, literature review assistance, proofreading, complex problem solving, drafting content, interdisciplinary insights, data analysis planning, exploring niche topics, addressing "what-if" scenarios, learning new concepts, aiding in cross-cultural communication, discussing ethical implications, staying updated on research trends. However, researchers should validate information, maintain critical thinking, and combine ChatGPT usage with traditional research methods for reliable and accurate outcomes.