The internet boom was the most recent radical shift in technology that drastically changed the job market, marketing, sales, and pretty much every single aspect of how businesses operate and how consumers purchase goods/services. Not to mention, nearly all aspects of our personal lives and how we socialize as well! Anywhere you go, people are constantly connected to the internet. Searching for questions/answers, checking their social media accounts, or taking part in the addiction of doom scrolling. The fast and radical shift that resulted from the internet boom is how I view the progress of AI and Machine Learning programs. While our current forms of AI tools don't possess any characteristics to prompt the fear of the inevitable rise of Skynet, this technology is rapidly advancing and will undoubtedly change the job market, for better or for worse.
One program that has garnered much attention lately is a language/dialect AI program called ChatGPT. ChatGPT is a resource that uses AI and natural language processing (NLP) to produce content and answers to prompts submitted by the user, formatted in an engaging, conversation-style text. Some are using ChatGPT as a search engine tool to answer their questions. The results are an impressive output that appears instantly and feels like a supercharged Google. A text is composed by the AI to answer your question using its vast connections to internet sources and content, while checking its own work in an attempt to provide only accurate information to the user. Is that so scary, after all? No, certainly not. At least, not in that context and in that use.
This program is essentially brand new. It was launched on November 30, 2022 so it has only existed for a couple of months. By December 15th, Open AI (ChatGPT's creator) claimed that it had already exceeded one million users! It stands to reason that this number has grown dramatically since then and the users are becoming more advanced in how to use ChatGPT for much more than a supercharged search engine. In my brief experience with ChatGPT I've been able to harness not only search results but entire writing works that are grammatically correct. How does something like this impact the education system? This software is capable of producing accurate works within seconds! For example, you can ask ChatGPT to write a two page college paper on economic policy (screenshot of real results below). You can see that instantly, the script is generated from the software. Could this be used by students to complete their papers/assignments? I believe the answer is, absolutely and instantly.
And what about creating content? The search results can be continually optimized to make things clearer and more presentable. Below, I asked ChatGPT to help me create an ad campaign for selling makeup. Then asked it to put the info into a table for easier viewing. Will this technology be utilized by content creators? Again, the answer is absolutely.
I believe we will soon see content creators using ChatGPT to create content for them. Simpler, faster, more accurate, and all done via AI language/dialect development such as ChatGPT. It is entirely possible that AI such as this will be the new creators of much of the content consumed by our society. Just from this simple exercise, we've actually learned a lot from ChatGPT's responses! It can create processes (when given detailed and directed search content), create content, write papers, and save countless hours of traditional web page browsing and researching.
While ChatGPT isn't the feared conqueror known as Skynet, it certainly is part of what will be a radical shift in how we do business and communicate with the world. I for one, am not a believer that we are nearing a sentient program that will be devoted to enslaving the population but I do think we are at the edge of a tremendous technological evolution that will rapidly and drastically change the way we do everything.
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