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Stanley Kubrick tried to warn us. In 1968, he produced a movie
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to teach computer program- ming. Book “authors” will have names such as Wordtune Spices and Rytr. Bots will
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called 2001: A Space Odyssey, in which a computer named HAL9000 goes rogue and wrests control of a spaceship away from its human crew.
AI’s benefits for humankind could be “so unbelievably good that it’s hard for me to even imagine.” On the other hand, he also has been quoted as saying that in a worst-case scenario, AI could “kill us all,” so that’s not very reas- suring.
write all the Broadway plays and motion picture scripts. (If a bot wins an Oscar, will it show up at the ceremonies to accept it? If so, who will it be wearing?) Country music songs will be composed by bots proclaiming their love of pickup trucks, old hound dogs and algorithms.
Earlier this year, an Aus- tralian MP advised his coun- try’s national parliament that the growth of AI could cause “mass destruction” and re- sult in job losses, disinfor- mation, and uncontrollable military applications. Part of his speech, it turns out, was written by AI.
But we didn’t listen. So now we have ChatGPT, an online chatbot whose obvi- ous goal is to wrest control of words away from human writers. (GPT stands for Generative Pre-trained Trans- former. That phrase alone should be scary-sounding enough to make us nervous.)
In any event, they’re not fooling me with this “writ- ing assistant” bit. Their real goal is total control of writ-
ten communication. Writing teachers will be-
I’m not the only one who’s alarmed by the inevitable bots invasion.
Maybe it takes a human writer to point out the irony of that.
GPT stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer. That phrase alone should be scary-sounding enough to make us nervous.
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As someone who makes his living writing humanlike essays, I’ m all for using bet- ter technology to make my job easier. I’ d love to see improvements in spell-check programs, for example. Ev- ery time I typed “chatbot” in this column, it was changed to “hatbox.”
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