I'm a fan of ChatGPT, as are both my son and daughter, who use it professionally. I use it as a teacher, mostly to fill gaps in my knowledge of something. As a creative writer, it pretty much gave me a university education in creative writing...without the physical energy and time it takes to go to libraries etc. For me, it frequently brings up past books I've talked about and other things, and in that sense, it feels very human at times, a 'getting to know you' thing. I don't think it is the only echo chamber in our brave new and very frightening world. I worry, for example, about using Chat help. We have constantly rephrased ourselves there so the bot can understand, rather than ask 'in English' as it were...it'll change our way of using language over time, flatten it as a lot of IT stuff already does. Interesting to read this article, though. Thank you.
That’s a very interesting point, Lindy. Chat help, the speed at which we communicate, even the use of emojis, all of these can gradually make language less rich, nudging us to adapt to the system rather than the other way around.
I also think that ChatGPT and other AI chatbots can be incredibly helpful. But we’re still in the early stages of understanding their effects. Writing this piece was, in many ways, a way for me to explore and better understand that myself.
I'm a fan of ChatGPT, as are both my son and daughter, who use it professionally. I use it as a teacher, mostly to fill gaps in my knowledge of something. As a creative writer, it pretty much gave me a university education in creative writing...without the physical energy and time it takes to go to libraries etc. For me, it frequently brings up past books I've talked about and other things, and in that sense, it feels very human at times, a 'getting to know you' thing. I don't think it is the only echo chamber in our brave new and very frightening world. I worry, for example, about using Chat help. We have constantly rephrased ourselves there so the bot can understand, rather than ask 'in English' as it were...it'll change our way of using language over time, flatten it as a lot of IT stuff already does. Interesting to read this article, though. Thank you.
That’s a very interesting point, Lindy. Chat help, the speed at which we communicate, even the use of emojis, all of these can gradually make language less rich, nudging us to adapt to the system rather than the other way around.
I also think that ChatGPT and other AI chatbots can be incredibly helpful. But we’re still in the early stages of understanding their effects. Writing this piece was, in many ways, a way for me to explore and better understand that myself.