The Real Danger Of ChatGPT
Summary
TLDRThis script explores the impact of ChatGPT on various industries, such as writing, coding, and education, discussing its potential to change how we approach tasks like essay writing. The narrator reflects on how AI could lead to a culture of 'editors' and questions the role of traditional writing in a world where machines can generate text. It emphasizes the importance of personal expression and learning through writing, while also acknowledging the inevitability of AI’s growing influence. The script ends by promoting Squarespace as a tool for creating professional websites.
Takeaways
- 🤖 ChatGPT is seen as a major disruptor, potentially replacing several traditional tasks like essay writing, coding, and more.
- 📚 The fear that AI will replace human tasks like writing is often overstated, but ChatGPT has impressed with its ability to generate coherent paragraphs quickly.
- ✍️ While AI-generated writing may never rival the best human writers, it performs at a level comparable to a high school student’s B-minus essay.
- ⏳ The speaker admits they would have used ChatGPT during school for convenience, highlighting the temptation of automating tasks like essay writing.
- 🧮 ChatGPT’s potential parallels how tools like calculators and spell check have taken over certain academic tasks.
- 📝 Essay writing is used in education to assess students' deeper understanding and synthesis of knowledge, a skill machines now encroach upon.
- 📱 With access to vast information via the internet, memorization is less emphasized in education today.
- 🔄 AI tools like ChatGPT might encourage a future where people edit and refine machine-generated content rather than create original work from scratch.
- 🧠 Writing is more than just putting words together; it’s a way to uniquely understand oneself, a process that AI-generated content lacks.
- 🎓 The speaker reflects on their own journey, acknowledging the value of learning writing skills to express personal beliefs and ideas.
Q & A
What is the central theme of the script?
-The central theme of the script is the potential impact of AI, particularly ChatGPT, on various fields like writing, education, and creativity, and how humans might adapt to these changes by becoming editors rather than original creators.
Why does the speaker refer to ChatGPT as being on an 'ambitious killing spree'?
-The speaker uses 'ambitious killing spree' metaphorically to describe how ChatGPT and similar AI technologies are taking over tasks previously done by humans, such as writing essays, coding, and creating content, thus 'killing' certain jobs or skills.
What is the speaker's attitude toward the use of ChatGPT by high school students for essay writing?
-The speaker acknowledges that high school students, like their teenage self, would likely use ChatGPT without hesitation to write essays, valuing efficiency over effort. However, they suggest that this may detract from personal growth and learning.
How does the speaker compare editing AI-generated content to traditional writing?
-The speaker sees editing AI-generated content as a lesser form of creation compared to traditional writing. While both involve working within a pre-existing language system, true writing is about unique self-expression, whereas editing AI output is merely refining something created by a machine.
What does the speaker suggest might be the future of writing?
-The speaker suggests that in the future, much of basic writing might be outsourced to AI, with humans taking on the role of editors, 'tweakers,' and 'embellishers,' rather than original writers.
How does the speaker view the role of teachers in light of AI advancements like ChatGPT?
-The speaker views teachers as heroes who inspire students to value learning over grades. Even as AI becomes more capable, teachers will need to motivate students to engage with writing and critical thinking rather than relying solely on AI tools.
What parallels does the speaker draw between outsourcing writing to AI and other technologies like calculators or spell check?
-The speaker compares outsourcing writing to AI with how society has outsourced math to calculators, spelling to spell check, and memory to the internet, suggesting that relying on AI for basic tasks may become as normalized as using these other tools.
What is the speaker's personal experience with writing, and how does it inform their perspective on AI-generated content?
-The speaker reflects on their teenage self who would have used ChatGPT for easy grades but contrasts that with their current view as a professional essayist. They believe that the process of writing, not just editing, is crucial for personal growth and self-understanding.
Why does the speaker believe editing AI-generated content is not the same as writing?
-The speaker believes editing AI-generated content isn't the same as writing because editing starts with language produced by something else, whereas writing is a process of creating original structures of thought and expression from scratch.
What does the speaker hope future generations will retain despite the rise of AI tools like ChatGPT?
-The speaker hopes that future generations will still develop a strong foundation in writing and critical thinking, recognizing its value for self-expression and personal growth, even as AI tools like ChatGPT become more prevalent.
Outlines
🤖 ChatGPT's Role in Changing Writing and Education
This paragraph discusses how ChatGPT, an AI chatbot developed by OpenAI, has made a significant impact on various fields, including search engines, copywriting, and coding. It humorously notes that while reports of its dominance may be exaggerated, the bot is undeniably impressive in its ability to generate coherent narratives. The author compares its writing ability to a high school student aiming for a B-minus on a book report and reflects on how, years ago, they would have used the AI for essay writing without hesitation. The writer explores how writing, like math and spelling, might be outsourced to AI as part of a cultural shift toward working 'smarter' rather than harder. However, the paragraph also highlights the educational value of essay writing in fostering personal synthesis of information, a skill AI may soon challenge.
📚 The Future of Writing and Editing in an AI-Dominated World
The second paragraph contemplates a future where AI is used to draft basic forms of writing, with humans taking on the roles of editors, tweaking and embellishing AI-generated content. The author draws a distinction between writing and editing, suggesting that while editing is important, it starts with the language of someone (or something) else. The paragraph further argues that writing is a unique form of self-expression, essential for personal discovery and understanding. The writer shares a personal journey, explaining how writing helped them explore their identity in their 20s and expressing hope that future generations will maintain this connection to writing, despite the rise of AI. The paragraph concludes by promoting Squarespace as a platform for building professional websites, particularly for video content.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡ChatGPT
💡Killing Spree
💡Working smarter
💡Outsourcing
💡Personal synthesis
💡Editing
💡Memorization
💡Grades over learning
💡System of language
💡Professional essayist
Highlights
ChatGPT has been perceived as a threat to various professions such as copywriters, coders, and even essay writers.
The claim that AI will 'change everything' is often exaggerated, with some changes being more gradual or less impactful.
ChatGPT is impressive in its ability to generate coherent paragraphs, comparable to the work of a high school student aiming for a B-minus.
The use of AI like ChatGPT raises questions about the future of essay writing in schools, similar to how calculators changed math education.
Students might start to rely on AI for basic writing tasks, similar to how spell check and the internet have replaced certain memorization and learning practices.
Essay writing has traditionally been a method to assess deeper understanding and personal synthesis of information.
The prevalence of AI tools could lead to a shift from traditional writing to a focus on editing, tweaking, and embellishing AI-generated content.
This shift could result in a culture of editors rather than original writers, where people primarily modify pre-existing content.
The difference between writing and editing is like the difference between creating something new and merely refining existing material.
Writing allows for unique self-expression and understanding, which could be lost if replaced by AI-generated content.
Teachers play a crucial role in imparting foundational writing skills, which are essential for personal development and self-discovery.
Despite the allure of using AI for easy grades, foundational writing skills provide long-term benefits beyond academic performance.
The speaker reflects on their own journey, acknowledging the value of the writing skills learned in school when exploring their personal beliefs and identity.
Future generations may need to find new ways to balance AI assistance with developing their own writing and critical thinking abilities.
The episode concludes with an appreciation for 2022 and a promotional message for Squarespace, emphasizing its utility for creating professional-looking websites.
Transcripts
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[Music]
s chat GPT the artificial intelligence
chat bot built by open AI has been on an
ambitious Killing Spree timelines
overflow with eulogies to its victims
search engines copywriters coders High
School essays and many more now reports
of these impending deaths may be
exaggerated human beings love to write
the words this will change everything
only to shrug a year later when this
changed very little chatgpt might be a
game changer it might not be either way
the bot is undeniably impressive what
really astounds is its rhetorical muscle
its ability to generate paragraphs of
coherent argument or narrative obviously
there are several million humans to
which it can't hold a candle in this
regard but it instantly hurdled several
million others land ending somewhere in
the neighborhood of a high school
student who's perfectly happy with a B
minus on their Pride and Prejudice book
report 20 years ago that was my
neighborhood if I had access to chat GPT
in 10th grade English I would have used
it without compunction why waste a
perfectly good afternoon scratching out
a five paragraph essay on Austin's
depictions of social class when I could
generate this in seconds in America we
don't call this cheating we call it
working smarter maybe the eulogies are
fitting maybe we'll Outsource writing to
chat GPT like we outsourced math to
calculators spelling to spell check
memory to the internet to a certain
extent the prevalence of essay writing
in school reflects the decline of
memorization as a method of teaching and
learning a decline that feels inevitable
maybe even appropriate in a world where
where the totality of human knowledge is
pocket-sized we assign essays because
they allow teachers to gauge a deeper
understanding in their students they
require more than just recall they
require a personal synthesis of
information which can't be outsourced to
a machine or couldn't be until a few
weeks ago pretty soon English teachers
are going to get that question Math
teachers have been getting for decades
when will we ever need this stuff in
real life now won't work here
teens are just too Savvy for that the
truth is that you'll probably never have
to calculate a definite integral once
you leave school and the truth is we'll
likely Outsource many categories of
basic writing to Ai and never look back
now for other more complex kinds of
writing you could simply start with chat
GPT let it provide the basic structure
then edit to your liking editing after
all is another way way to synthesize
information maybe ours will become a
culture of editors Tweakers embellishers
would that be so bad well the insipid
teenage me would probably say no but the
34 year old me the one who ironically
became a professional essayist leans the
opposite way the difference between
writing and editing is like the
difference between writing and reading
reading is enormously important
obviously it closes the gaps of our
ignorance and expands our knowledge but
it does so through the language of
others their words their sentences their
narratives and arguments editing two
begins with the language of someone else
in the case of chat GPT something else
of course to some extent writing is
editing too we inherit our language and
its rules from culture from the past we
express ourselves through a system that
we didn't invent but that system is so
infinitely flexible that we can use it
to create structures of our own language
is how human beings understand
themselves and the world but writing is
how we understand uniquely not to write
is to live according to the language of
others or Worse to live through edits
tweaks and embellishments to language
generated by an overconfident AI chatbot
I doubt this argument would convince the
teenage me to resist a free Magic tool
that promises easy grades for Less work
as ever it's left to teachers to
impassion their students within a system
that prioritizes grades over learning
often they succeed but even when they
don't they still do the heroic work of
giving insipid high schoolers like
myself be basic writing competence in my
20s when I began to wonder who I really
was and what I really believed questions
that come for all of us I discovered
that writing structuring language of my
own was the only way to find out that's
when the foundation teachers worked so
hard to give me proved its immense value
I hope future Generations have a similar
Foundation One Way or Another new
writing is on its way from the future to
make sense of all of us I think we'll
prefer it to be our own
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