Un ChatGPT

 

A few years ago, my daughter and a few of her little friends wrote the script and presented a skit on alice in wonderland called the mad hatters party.

Alice and her friends are celebrating a birthday party, but since it is not anyone’s birthday, they greet each other a very happy unbirthday!

And the whole script is written by the kids with the prefix “un” so instead of the word “happy”, they used the word “unsad”!

The kids were just aged between 7 and 10 and they sat together and wrote the full script for the ten minute skit.

 I remembered this as I was reading a post on chatGPT and its wonders to make life easy.

I have not used chatGPT and though I am fascinated by the wonders of AI, I am skeptical about using the word “creativity” associated with internet and its byproducts.

What comes as output or any form of output from the internet is nothing but what is already poured into it by some human organism.

I wouldn’t credit AI to be intelligent to be creative at all.

Creativity needs human input and what is already available in the internet is put in by some human being who has used his own creative mind to create that data which some may prefer to use terms like algorithm or AI or any other mumbo jumbo.

Ideas come from the imperfect human mind that comes from illogical eccentricities of the imperfect human being.

The human mind often makes illogical decisions and has illogical ideas that the computer is incapable of making.

My observation is that, one of the byproducts of using the AI of the computer, has been self glorification of mundane achievements of individuals.

This is seen at several forum where “eminent” personalities make beautiful presentations using all sorts of tools available on the computer to project what are really ordinary achievements and thus become eligible to be called as experts.

I myself have benefitted from my ability to disguise ordinary work as extra-ordinary and have been the recipient of praise, all the while being aware that I am unworthy of such credit.

Coming back to the beginning of this post, why do I relate these thoughts on AI and chatgpt on the skit that my daughter had written?

Because here in the world of AI and Google and chatgpt and whatnot, the world is all unworldly.

The intelligence is unbrilliant, the achievement has been achieved by unwork, the praise itself is undeserving.

The ease of projecting unwork as work actually makes us unefficient, expecting everything to be in our laps with uneffort…

The problem is not that uncompetent people get all the limelight; the problem is that effort itself becomes uncool.

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