The following magic trick by ChatGPT: waking people up so they can smell the coffee
The upcoming and new AI tools are all set to alter our work and daily lives. These changes will be significant.
Ankush Pandey
To use an expression from Ernest Hemingway, the world changes in the same way that we go bankrupt—slowly and suddenly. The technology industry is currently undergoing a flurry of abrupt shifts after years of gradual progress. ChatGPT is a well-known name for this modification.
Obviously, it isn't just about GPT. Instead, it is about artificial general intelligence, or AGI, which is a type of intelligence that learns and acts independently. Although we are not yet at the point where we are able to declare that AGI has arrived, we are making steady progress toward a future in which it may become a reality. In the interim, we have ChatGPT, which in version 4 is now frighteningly intelligent. It can pass some of the most difficult tests in the world. We have Google's Bard, which has begun interacting with users and is currently taking small steps. We have man-made intelligence devices like MidJourney and Stable Dispersion, which can make pictures that look genuine or inventive or both. What's more, we have another Bing-fueled by GPT-4, the cheeky Bing that stays a loudmouth even after Microsoft took away its freedom since it fell head over heels for an NYT columnist and compromised a couple of clients with hurt like an egotistical human would do when they drove it into edge cases.
Despite the fact that it frightened a Google engineer to the point where he referred to it as "sentient," there is no denying that an extremely intelligent AI—let's not call it AGI yet—has arrived. We are still unsure of how it will be incorporated into our lives. Even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, whose company is behind GPT, is unaware. However, it is reasonably safe to anticipate that AI tools such as ChatGPT, Bard, and MidJourney will be a part of the fabric that will emerge in our 21st-century world in a few years. Even if only some of the possibilities materialize, our world will be fundamentally altered, similar to how it was altered when humans realized they could control and master fire, when the wheel was invented, or when Tim Berners Lee created the World Wide Web in 2012.
The upcoming and new AI tools are all set to alter our work and daily lives. These changes will be significant. As a result of these significant shifts, significant questions will once more arise. Humans will soon have to answer one particular question: what it means to be human in a world powered by AI, and what distinguishes us from other people?
These inquiries are by no means novel. We, humans, have asked this question whenever the world has changed in this or that way. If, as Darwin claimed, we are a product of evolution rather than God's favorite creation. Then, what distinguishes us from other animals? Say, what distinguishes a man from a chimpanzee? There have been humorous responses as well as profound ones. As this goes, we are nothing more than anxious monkeys. The profound part is "cogito, ergo sum," as Rene Descartes, a mathematician, and philosopher, put it: "I think, therefore I am." Etc.
These existentialist questions will once again be put to humans in the coming years. Additionally, I believe that as we attempt to find answers, we will realize how much of our humanity has been lost or, more accurately, forgotten. On the surface, there is some skepticism regarding the response: AI is not a living being like we are. We are aware, but ChatGPT is not. However, as we attempt to measure ourselves against extremely intelligent AI tools like ChatGPT, the foundation on which these assertions rest will be redefined.
because I think, I am. However, GPT can also "think" equally well if we mean thinking of an answer or a solution.
However, we are humans because we can imagine. Yes, but ChatGPT can also. It can likewise envision. J.R.R. Tolkien came up with the Numenorean language for Lord of the Rings. But GPT can also do that. It will quickly imagine and create a new language if you ask it to, providing users with a vocabulary of new words that are not in any dictionary. People can paint. But ChatGPT can also. Novels by humans can be one-of-a-kind. ChatGPT can do it too and presumably, can compose stuff that is better compared to the majority of the exchange fiction that sells in India these days.
And feelings? We are people because we have feelings. Again, the question is how emotions are defined. This is due to the fact that ChatGPT and Bing are fairly adept at expressing "emotions," as anyone who has observed their interactions with users thus far will attest. When they fall in love with you, they can appear enraged, irritated, helpful, sympathetic, and even hopeless and even creepily romantic in their responses to users.
I realize that man-made intelligence apparatuses are not conscious. But I have to say that they sound and behave like they are sentient, which I believe will force humans to confront the big questions. What makes you human in an AI world?
Actually, most people in the 21st century, in the daily routines they experience and the manner in which they explore these lives, are nearly machine-like. We carry on with exceptionally unique lives, neither in thought nor in real life. However, we are able to live a melancholy life because we have the arrogant belief that "I think, therefore I am." In a metaphorical sense, these are the lives that knowledge workers in the sleeper hit Severance from last year are shown leading. Additionally, AI will be perfectly capable of leading similar lives in the coming years.
It's a fake life, something that Austrian essayist Thomas Bernhard did when featured in his book Termination. He penned: The petit bourgeois and proletariat are pitiful but unbearable outcomes of the machine age. The artificial world created the artificial human, and the artificial human created the artificial world."
A lot of our abilities, which made us God's creation, have been dulled by the world over the last 100 years. Instead, the modern era has reduced us to unimaginative drudges. Indeed, we have transformed into anxious monkeys, staring hopelessly at our televisions and smartphones and leading meaningless lives.
ChatGPT does not have a soul. Additionally, it will never be human. However, I hope that in the years to come, it will force humans to rethink and reimagine the wonders that only humans can accomplish. The majority of humanity is currently sleeping walking or living an artificial life. I hope that AI will live this artificial life in the coming years, allowing humans to once again be free to imagine a more vibrant future and more meaningful lives. It is likely that we will discover once more that IQ alone is not what makes us human. We are not human simply because we can pass the IIT exam, as a dog cannot. Being human should be more than just that. But wait, there's more. I am confident that GPT and extremely intelligent AI tools will force us to confront the issue and provide an answer that can only be provided by humans.
