How ChatGPT AI Chatbot Is Bringing Sexy Back to the World of Writing
AI is everywhere
With the release of OpenAI’s artifical intelligence (AI) chatbot — ChatGPT, AI is the sexiest new topic on everyone’s lips.
🦍 The Tech Giants are beating their chests in a fight to see who can develop the next evolution of AI first.
🤩 Businesses are treating it like the hot new girl in school — gossiping during meetings and passing texts of the latest AI business trends.
📄 And college students are using ChatGPT to plain old cheat and write their papers for them. What else is new?
But it isn’t just all talk — we’re seeing AI in action every day. Smart phones. Cars. Video games. Social media. Alexa.
The McKinsey Global Institute estimates 70 percent of businesses will adopt AI technology by 2030, with half of all big organizations embedding an entire suite of AI technologies into their processes.
It’s scary to feel like AI can get inside our minds… but also pretty cool when you think about it. 🤯
AI can be useful in anticipating our desires and needs. Like after meeting a friend for happy hour at a trendy new restaurant. Simply pop open your Maps app and it’ll automatically guess that you want to go home.
Yes, please.
Or when you’re researching a new product and several marketing ads for these products just so happen to flood your social media feed. Some people may call this creepy; I call it effective marketing.
I’m all for AI making life easier.
The evolution of AI
But even before the latest ChatGPT craze AI was already everywhere. We just didn’t realize it.
AI has been around for a while. Since 1956 when John McCarthy coined the term and held the first ever conference dedicated to AI.
Then there was that supercomputer IBM created in 1997 that beat the world champion in a game of chess.
The invention of the Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner for all of us who are too lazy to clean our houses every day.
During the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic Baidu developed an AI algorithm in 2020 for medical and scientific teams to use in creating a vaccine. This algorithm predicted the RNA sequence of the virus 120 times faster than other methods!
And now it’s ChatGPT.
What’s so special about ChatGPT?
ChatGPT is an AI chatbot program that is more conversational and ‘human’ in its responses. This helps the chatbot to better assist us in our everyday lives.
For example, have you ever asked Alexa a question to which she responded with “hmm, I’m not sure” or worse yet she doesn’t respond at all?
The difference with ChatGPT is that it generates realistic, human-like answers. And most exciting is that it is continually learning.
This chatbot works by using enhanced large language models (LLMs) and deep learning that resemble human speech to predict text and arrange words in a logical order. LLM bots are powerful because they understand natural language better than people can. Computers make decisions based on logic whereas people make decisions based on emotions. Not that we like to admit it.
What does this mean in English, please?
ChatGPT learns from its interactions with people. The more people use it, the better and more accurate responses it will produce.
Such a powerful tool must be expensive and complicated to use, right?
Nope. It’s free and easy to use. You simply type a question or request into the chat and then you receive a response within seconds.
People are using Chat GPT for writing emails, computer coding, and even social media copy. While other people use it more generally for answering questions or starting their day off with a nice motivational quote.
People are clearly excited about ChatGPT.
Website introducing OpenAI’s new ChatGPT AI chatbot
When OpenAI released ChatGPT on November 30, 2022 it took less than a week to get a million users. Two months later they had 100 million. In fact, ChatGPT is so popular that it has become the fastest growing app ever — even beating out TikTok.
Chatbot pros and cons
But even with its wild popularity the chatbot has its pros and cons when it comes to writing.
Major pros include:
It’s FREE to use — there is also a paid version called ChatGPT Plus
Providing instant responses to any question
Speeding up research by suggesting a list of resources
Major cons include:
Inaccurate or misleading information
Inability to produce original content
Plagiarizing other writers’ work
OpenAI even provides a disclaimer when you sign up.
“While we have safeguards in place, the system may occasionally generate incorrect or misleading information and produce offensive or biased content. It is not intended to give advice.”
How generative AI is changing the world of writing
ChatGPT can’t replicate human creativity, but it can be a great tool when writing a first draft.
Writer’s block is truly one of the greatest plagues to infect our minds, stifling creativity and productivity.
Think of everything you could accomplish if you could eliminate writer’s block.
“The chatbot is useful for generating creative ideas, providing summaries and writing first drafts. It can also produce large amounts of text with a quick response time, making it ideal for efficient content scaling — so long as it goes through rigorous quality assurance (by humans) afterwards! The key is to use ChatGPT in tandem with human expertise, not as a substitute,” said Sophie Mizrach, content manager at digital marketing agency Semetrical, in a PR Moment article.
Change is uncomfortable and terrifying, but we need change to continue moving forward.
Throughout history there are many examples of people’s fear of new technology distracting them from the exciting advancements new technology provides, such as:
Socrates originally thought that the invention of writing would cloud the truth
The New York Times attacked Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone for invasion of privacy in 1877
In 1916 Charline Chaplin said “The cinema is little more than a fad. It’s canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage”
IBM Chairman and CEO Thomas J. Watson didn’t think there was a large market for computers
20th Century giant Daryl Zanuck said “Television won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night”
Like all of these tech advancements, ChatGPT must be embraced in order to set a new norm when it comes to writing. Similar to the way you use Microsoft Word’s spell check or Grammarly, you will come to use ChatGPT as part of your writing process. Just another tool in your writing toolbox.
The writing community has nothing to fear from generative AI like ChatGPT.
And everything to gain.
