Robots Are Coming for My Job
ChatGPT: the ultimate poster.
At the end of November, OpenAI released a program called ChatGPT to the world. Described by Wikipedia as a “prototype artificial intelligence chatbot,” ChatGPT answers questions the way Apple wants us to think Siri can.
Since its release, I’ve seen ChatGPT used to generate meal plans, therapy, and college essays. The quality varies widely, and I am no doctorate in computer science, but ChatGPT certainly feels like a step forward in the quest for true artificial intelligence.
Now, I’ve seen 2001: A Space Odyssey. I’m also a social media strategist, which means I have a front row seat to the collapse of Twitter — relevant because OpenAI, the research laboratory behind ChatGPT (and Dall-E, one of those “AI art generators” that blew up a few weeks before ChatGPT) was founded by, among others, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel. I find it quite plausible that an AI funded by these freaks might look a lot more like HAL 9000 than Stanley Kubrick could’ve imagined.
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