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With the release of ChatGPT, are the days of human writers numbered?
One writer’s quest to understand this new technology
OpenAI’s ChatGPT was launched with significant hype by the artificial intelligence (AI) research laboratory on 30 November 2022 and surpassed the 1 million user mark in just six days. But can this clever chatbot that interacts conversationally and can, at least according to its makers, ‘answer follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests’ replace human writers?
In writing this article, I set out to find the answer.
Disclaimer: Everything that appears below in italics has been written by an AI bot, but as you’ll see, if you stay with me, that’s kind of the point.
What does ChatGPT have to say about itself?
Given ChatGPT’s ability to interact conversationally, I thought it was appropriate to start with a quick chat with the bot itself. The following brief interview is the series of questions I posed to ChatGPT and the bot’s unedited responses.
Instruction: What is ChatGPT?
ChatGPT is a revolutionary new language model developed by OpenAI. It has the ability to generate human-like text, making it ideal for…
