Why I Would Not Be Using Chat GPT

Chat GPT, for all intents and purposes, may be the perfect (or near perfect) tool to whip out articles given the right prompts, but it lacks one major component that makes writing interesting — the ability of the human mind to go off on tangents and explore and create connections between disparate ideas that sometimes are so novel that reading them jolts your own brain to think a bit differently and explore new ideas, like discovering the wonders of Narnia behind a wardrobe door.

Yes, Chat GTP has great algorithms for grazing on and picking out from its very vast data base and regurgitating it in sentence structures very similar to how humans write.

And it writes brilliantly in a fraction of a time that a human would take — and some might say it writes better than most humans and they would be correct if they are into a cohesive summary of facts and figures all strung together in structurally correct sentences. Chat GTP can even replicate the tone of its writing to suit the occasion too. All very impressive.

But it falls short when you think that all of Chat GTPs writing is introporlative, that is it can find connection between facts and figures that already exist, which mind you, can and do lead to creative solutions to many problems.

But to come up, with something truly novel and exciting, you need extraplorative thinking, that is finding ideas and values outside of existing values and then incorporating or connecting those with existing values to build something newer and better.

An easy way to explain this is with a lego set. Think of Chat GPT having a lego set that it can dismantle and form again and again into many different structures. Chat GPT is just manipulating this lego set, it cannot add more bricks to it on its own.

Yes, we have all heard of self learning AI, and Chat GPT is self learning too. But even that is interplorative learning, nothing new from outside is added, only different connections between existing data given different circumstances give rise to demi-new concepts. Those are not really novel ideas. Nor do they offer novel solutions. At best they offer adequate solutions but certainly nothing new.

But a human mind is like a lego set where if it feels the need or slight inclination, it can create a brand new brick that can be incorporated into the lego set, thus expanding its versatility and being truly novel.

This ability to think and create something out of thin air, is truly unique to human species. That is why we are so good at lying and story telling! Our strongest attribute it turns out, is also our biggest downfall. A very unique preposition indeed.

And this is why chat GPT can never think, create or write like humans. It simply does not have the capability to think up something new. It can certainly pretend or emulate, and it does, but like all imitators, it falls short somehow, somewhere in plain view.

My biggest fear with Chat GPT is that it is breeding a genertaion of non-thinking humans. If we rely on it too much, we are dumbing down our thinking capabilities, our vocabulary and regressing as humans and letting go of our USP (unique selling preposition).

In the future when AI will take over most of human jobs, my prediction is the only valuable humans will be those who not only retain but hone in this USP of very creative thinking.