Me Vs ChatGPT 3.5…
So, I gave a few lines of my poetry ‘The Impostor’ to Chat GPT and requested it to edit it, and this is what it came up with…
So you believe you can craft
A poetry with might?
The former was mere fortune,
That you happened to write.”
I revisit it once, then twice,
Do these words seem trite?
It’s an ethereal sensation,
Like someone else’s flight.
I borrowed the doubts,
And the fears in the night.
“Should I share this, dear mother?
Or does it ring false and trite?”
As if another held the pen,
And the ink danced alone,
Scripting verses unwillingly,
On the parchment, emotions intone.
Then I asked it, “Who do you think wrote it better?” (just for fun) and this is what the Chat Bot replied,
The evaluation of whether one piece of writing is “better” than another is subjective and depends on personal preferences, style, and the intended purpose. Both versions have their unique qualities, and what might be considered better can vary from person to person.
Your original lines had a raw and genuine quality, capturing the internal struggle and self-reflection. My adaptation aimed to maintain that essence while refining certain aspects for flow and rhythm. The choice between the two ultimately depends on the tone, style, and emotional impact you prefer.
If there are specific elements you like from each version, or if there’s a particular direction you want to take the poem, feel free to let me know, and we can continue to refine or explore different aspects!
Personally I feel this first stanza above was a decent edit, but it completely butchered the next stanza.(I am not posting that here, else this post will become a tad long). Your words do sound trite Mr GPT 3.5. I, then requested it to write a poetry from scratch on the same topic and trust me it was a masterpiece.
So, where does that leave us?
I know that people do use Chat GPT to write articles in the copywriting world and also on other writing platforms like Medium. But, can you truly copywrite something Chat GPT wrote for you? When one of my fellow Medium writers mentioned how he spots Chat GPT articles, I started seeing it everywhere too. Similar usage of words and sentence formation styles.
I agree, one must update with the times and we will all need AI more than ever. However, if AI acquiring sentience is a real threat, then as of now it can do with some much needed sentience. Reading Chat GPT articles do feel like one person with one style of writing, writing for everybody. Right now, it forms convoluted sentences with heavy words and every sentence in it’s literary creation feels loaded. It is a task trying to extract the message out of the digital jargon.
This is what Chat GPT is coming up in the literary space. Now to check what it comes up in the realm of the medical field, I decided to ask it some questions I had in mind and didn’t have clear answers to or questions that were directed to me by my seniors during my schooling years.
With all the hullabaloo surrounding AI and as to how it will revolutionize the digital world making things more efficient, faster, so much so that every information you need will be available in a jiffy, carefully curated for you from varied sources, Chat GPT is doing it’s own meta analysis of sorts with whatever information it has access to.
For the straightforward questions, it does come up with answers however for the slightly more complex ones, it beats around the bush. The answers sound more like a desperate kid in the examination hall coming up with an essay to fill space and wing it. It lacks nuance and something tells me that it does not have enough access to all available information. Also, as of this version, it certainly can’t think for itself or come up with an useful inference. Even if you prod it towards the answer, it fails to see the pattern. May be that will change over time, but that remains to be seen.
Today, a specialist in the field with years of experience under his belt would beat Chat GPT. I would rather rely on my seniors and good old open source Google Searches and access quality stuff than rely on Chat GPT for the same. In it’s defense it hasn’t been updated since Jan 2022, but that still doesn’t account for it’s current subpar output. On a lighter note, if Chat GPT is going to be like iPhone, where you dumb down the existing version to release a pseudo updated version, our jobs are safe. If it is acquiring sentience, it isn’t visible in the medical field as yet.
An insightful article on Medium as to how Chat GPT could be used by screenwriters had me thinking. The question whether screen actors would lose jobs because the characters could be digitally created or whether the presence of models on print media or television be endangered?
Honestly, when I walk into a movie hall, I am looking for what a real person can bring to the table with the limitations of their flesh, blood, mind and emotions. What leaves the audience in awe, is to watch someone else do what you probably cannot and that is precisely what makes the experience enthralling. How is an AI generated movie any better than an anime? I agree anime has it’s own audience and I occasionally enjoy it too, but I am not sure I would if all movies were just that.
As my fellow writer on Medium mentioned, even with the advent of movies, theater has it’s own charm. Similarly anime and digital content may have it’s space tomorrow but people like me would want to see human artists and would certainly find them more relatable and refreshing.
Take for example, the high end video games that can simulate reality. It has it’s own fan base but I hate them. If I had enough friends around, I would any day prefer playing a real sport with my homies outside. Even little kids today are more addicted to their devices than having an actual life outside of it. With the sky rocketing suicide rates and the ongoing loneliness epidemic and other methods of escapism like substance abuse claiming lives everyday, AI won’t exactly be a cure. Take cell phones for example. We all mindlessly scroll on it all day long but so is the resurgence of trekking expeditions and nature retreats and vipassana and meditation programs that are becoming a rage more than ever today.
It does not matter if you have life like robots fulfilling every fantasy of yours, you will still crave for that human touch. AI could diagnose and come up with a treatment plan, you will still want the presence of a doctor in flesh and blood. At least, I would. AI in my opinion needs to seamlessly merge with the lives of humans like computers did in the last century. It needs to make the tedious easy, the complex simpler and the dangerous safe. They aren’t a replacement for everything human.
