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John Ward's avatar

I was able to get access to ChatAI this week. It was my first time interacting with one of the GPT-based platforms and it was both amazing and terrifying. I asked it to write a poem about unrequited love in trochaic tetrameter. It not only created a poem, but it made a great poem.

The crushing pain of unrequited love

A heart's desire never met above.

The loneliness that comes from no returns

My heart, it aches and ever yearns

Unrequited love is bittersweet

A love that only I can meet.

A sadness that no one else can feel

My pining for it is quite real.

To hope for love that can't be had

Leaves me ever feeling sad.

A world of one not meant to be

Alone I'm left in my misery.

I also asked it to write a fictional story that included completely unrelated nonsense elements. It wasn’t the greatest story ever, but given my prompts it was coherent. Then, I decided to get philosophical. I asked it to write an essay examining a specific doctrine in theology. It created a persuasive argument and even cited specific verses to support its position. I asked it to come up with a list of exotic sounding names that were still pronounceable because I was curious how it would interpret what pronounceable meant for a computer versus a human. It filled my request with ease. When it comes to things like this, I think AI is amazing.It has the capacity to truly change our society for the better and in amazing ways that we can’t even begin to guess at.

However, AI scares me to death. Companies and governments will be able to use this to build such rich profiles about users or citizens. I’m not sure society is ready for the changes that are just around the corner. I mean we’ve barely adjusted to the idea of the internet and being able to easily communicate with people all around the globe. Social media is a great example of our growing pains in this area. On top of that we are very quickly going to have entire sectors of the economy that will no longer need human labor. AI art generators will soon put illustrators out of work. It seems like programmers could become a needless luxury within the near term.

I’m not sure we’re ready for this, but at the same time I love using it.

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Al Amir's avatar

Not sure where I heard this but it went something like this, “Twenty years ago, I thought AI-powered robots would be doing all of my chores while I sat back and worked on my art. Instead, now AI is generating the art while I’m still stuck doing chores.”

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