The rapid progression of AI tools like ChatGPT can feel overwhelming and a bit scary 😱
So here are a couple of things that might help put your mind at ease.
The first is a recent New Yorker article by Cal Newport…
He covered the same ground on his podcast.
Here’s the YouTube version…
🤓 Cal is a computer scientist, and his article breaks down how ChatGPT actually works, without getting too technical.
He writes…
once we’ve taken the time to open up the black box and poke around the springs and gears found inside, we discover that programs like ChatGPT don’t represent an alien intelligence with which we must now learn to coexist; instead, they turn out to run on the well-worn digital logic of pattern-matching, pushed to a radically larger scale.
So ChatGPT is essentially a ton of computing power that has been trained on tons of data. And it does a very good imitation of being intelligent mainly by “predicting useful words to output next” 🤖
A commenter on Cal’s YouTube video quotes Marie Curie…
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
The second thing here is a recent video by Casey Neistat.
Casey is a popular YouTuber who asked ChatGPT to write a video script in his usual style 📝 then went and created the video shot-for-shot and word-for-word.
The result…
- AI Made this VLOG…
Casey shares his take near the end…
That was the worst video I’ve ever made. That video sucked. And it sucked because it had no humanity, it had no depth to it, no soul to it.
[…] in GPT-4’s defense… I could have gone deeper with the prompts and perhaps it could have faked having a soul a little bit more. But, as it stands now, it felt robotic, it felt basic, it felt like a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy of something that maybe was good.
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