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Why Should We Be Excited About Chat GPT?
I used Chat GPT for the first time two days ago. I’m a luddite and I had similar fears when Wikipedia became widespread about how it would make people intellectually lazier and discourage people from reading the works of authors and the people who do this research.
Chat GPT makes our lives easier but I think at costs that are too high. If it doesn’t use citations, it eliminates the recognition and potential page views of all the research and hard work of the people who compiled the information in the first place. That didn’t come from nowhere.
It also has all sorts of troubling implications for how we develop ourselves as thinkers and writers. I assume that multiple choice tests went out of vogue at some point in favor of essays but students could cheat their way through that now. I think we need to go back, full stop, to multiple choice and short answer tests in classrooms with proctors to develop students.
This can’t be good. Even for adults either. Studies show that if we overly rely on GPS for navigation, the part of our brain for navigation shrinks.
It is a bit irresistible when doing research, to be able to do it a little faster. But to rely on it as your entry point to the internet? To eschew the rest of the internet for it. The joy of being a consumer of information and art is to attach…
