Chatbot, am not

Two little mounds of flesh, So soft, so round, so fair, Upon a chest of snow, Two little buds of air.   Two little peaks of joy, So sensitive, so sweet, That when touched, They stand erect, entice.   Two little points of love, So full of life, so warm, That when they’re kissed They give thrills of joy.   Two little cups of milk, So sweet, so pure, so white, That filled they give A nourishment so bright.   Two little symbols of The love that God has given, To womankind to show Motherhood’s joys   — Bard, waxing poetic on women’s bosoms   ChatGPT, while still in continuous development since its release in November 2022, has taken the world by storm because its use of artificial intelligence, or AI, has allowed it to hold open-ended conversations with humans in written form. But rave about ChatGPT we’d rather not because OpenAI’s creation is just a more advanced and sophisticated variant of what personal assistants like Alexa, Siri, or Hey Google have been doing for many years now through smart devices, albeit only verbally or graphically. ChatGPT, I’d dare say, is more evolutionary than revolutionary. Suffice it to say, though, that we can see sooner than later chatbots and personal assistants crossing over into each other’s digital realms to cover all platforms whether written verbal, photos, videos, or robotics. Their very human creators (greed is exclusive to man, right?) would all do that because convergence holds the key to making money from disruptive or game-changing concepts like AI. Mind you, AI can be made to do a lot more things other than Google’s Bard being told to generate (did I say write?) that paean of a poem above on women’s nurturing nature. AI, as you read this, is already powering self-driving cars, smart cities, customer service, and revolutionizing education through customized tutorials. But AI, as a branch of computer science, deserves a series of columns. So enough of this digression and let’s go back to the specifics of those AI-powered chatbots, with me wearing my Daily Tribune technology editor’s hat. Am no expert here, but who can claim to be one when even Google’s top executives admitted in an interview with 60 Minutes that they could not put a finger on how Bard, their answer to ChatGPT, works? You know, just like opening Pandora’s or Forrest Gump’s box of chocolates: Either you get all of the evils of the world pouring out because of AI, or life’s gooey, mouth-watering goodness, or both. Who knows what the future holds? Going back to ChatGPT, which has gotten a headstart over Bard but may eventually cave in from the power of Google’s superlative search engine and wealth, there’s a certain depth of response that people get from it. Alexa or Siri could not hold a candle to ChatGPT in making some lazy people think they can use the AI chatbot instead of doing actual research or in passing themselves off as writers even at the risk of being exposed as plagiarists. One daughter told me that, in college, they have unmasked ChatGPT users among their peers, having analyzed the plagiarized works vis-a-vis what the chatbot does and its formula for responding to prompts. In most cases, ChatGPT throws in a structured response broken down into three parts: Introduction, body (where it does its data dumping, information overload), and conclusion, she told me. Likewise, perfection is a giveaway when somebody who could not even write a single grammatically passable sentence suddenly becomes Mark Twain-ish. As AI chatbots can get overly formulaic, it would not take rocket science to decipher a chatbot-generated piece of writing, notwithstanding Google’s attempt at selling Bard as one infused with black magic, a pathetic attempt at marketing hype. The post Chatbot, am not appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»