On a lark, I asked the OpenAI chatbot ChatGPT to write a shave journal entry that mentioned luxury brands. Thought folks might find it entertaining, the bot has good taste!
Asking ChatGPT to write a shave journal entry
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Wow! Pretty amazing and a little scary! Soon it will be very difficult if not impossible to determine whether one is interacting with a human or a computer!
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True, we live in strange times. I was a little surprised the bot didn't know about mentioning bespoke brush brands, NOS vintage blades, and a lengthy pre/post-shave routine. Amazed that it did know about "passes" in a shave. And everything was in the correct order.
There’s a lot of hand wringing going on right now about using bots to write school and college papers etc. Now I can see why. There’s a guy that wrote an app that you can use to distinguish whether you’re talking to a person or bot but I can’t remember his name or the name of the app.
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In my limited experience with the bot, it has a tendency to have a lot of repetition and "fluff" in its answers, which might not be entirely distinctive as AI-composed but wouldn't grade well by most college profs.
I think the truly innovative/useful/scary aspect is that the AI is capable of composing working code in a variety of languages.
Yeah, AI is getting better, though I personally don't believe it will ever match the human brain. What students who are using AI for papers fail to realize is that they will eventually have to learn the core material or they will be unable to hold onto a job, if their career actually requires higher education.
What this means is students writing essay tests with pen and paper in class. I also see students doing more speeches in class over material they studied. AI will force curriculum to change in ways that will give better educations to all students.
The problem with giving a speech vs. writing a paper is writing is an entirely different skill. I have a much harder time writing than speaking
It reads like something a rather dim twelve year old might write if they also had no knowledge of the subject. You can tell instantly that this is an attempt to describe experiences the writer has not had. Only a twelve year old would stuff so many superfluous adjectives into every sentence, and I am surprised the AI tool has not yet learned to avoid this. It’s just trite - redundant filler and a waste of electricity. I give it 2/10 and would fail the AI for lack of effort or originality.
AI has its place, even today, and not only for porn. I’m sure it will generate interesting new solutions and approaches to problems that humans, with all our entrenched prejudices, struggle to find. But it is done by pure computational power, plagiarism, and randomness - there is no evidence of thought or creativity.
Then again, perhaps that is exactly how our brains work too, and we have just had a couple of millions of years longer to refine the algorithms and be able to discern good from bad in things that cannot simply be measured mathematically. This is what Hemingway called a bull—— detector, and ours are far better than what the AIs have.
Or did I just have an AI write this post? What do you think?
AI has its place, even today, and not only for porn. I’m sure it will generate interesting new solutions and approaches to problems that humans, with all our entrenched prejudices, struggle to find. But it is done by pure computational power, plagiarism, and randomness - there is no evidence of thought or creativity.
Then again, perhaps that is exactly how our brains work too, and we have just had a couple of millions of years longer to refine the algorithms and be able to discern good from bad in things that cannot simply be measured mathematically. This is what Hemingway called a bull—— detector, and ours are far better than what the AIs have.
Or did I just have an AI write this post? What do you think?
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