Well, human hackles are up again with the arrival of ChatGPT, a new chatbot created by San Francisco-based non-profit OpenAI. Not only is it showing its talent for logical thinking, but human users are delighted by ChatGPT‘s ability for AI-driven poems, stories and plays.
Take the haiku about the economic times we live in ChatGPT’s ‘Playground’ crafted upon command: The economy falls/ All hope turns to despair,/ Wisdom in the wind.’ Upon finding this generated poem liable to cause gloom among easily gloomable humans, we decided to add to the earlier command a request for a happy haiku on the same theme. The result: Prosperous day ahead,/ Uncertainty will soon subside,/ Growth will be our guide.
For those of you who may have figured out the truth – that this column has for years on end been regularly written not by a salary-sucking, temperamental human, but an AI program – you deserve our algorithmic admiration. For you, despite probably being human readers, have been able to differentiate superior artificial intelligence from its inferior natural counterpart.