A.I. in the modern workplace is a pretty hot topic. Rapid advancements in technology are enabling us to discover more and more ways AI can improve our work lives but with a catch and isn’t there always one? Enter Chat GPT.
With the explosive entrance of Chat GPT v3 on the modern internet scene there is some bell ringing by fearmongers and some ultra-optimistic-first-adapters heralding the new era of AI utopia. In all of this if you have managed to remain isolated, Kudos to you and your ability to have a singular focus on life. If I have managed to breach your security wall of isolation, let me bring you the news of Chat GPT. (Cue angelic choir)
What is Chat GPT?
ChatGPT is an AI-powered language model that can understand and generate text similar to human language. It uses a large dataset of language and information to predict the next word in a sentence. It can generate responses to prompts, and its accuracy is pretty good. More often than not the responses are uncanny, one might forget that they are talking to an AI.
Before you go down to your Y2K bunker and seal it shut. No, it is not connected to the internet and no it is not that kind of AI
So what is all the fuss about?
All the alarmism and rose-colored glasses aside, ChatGPT has revealed more about our society than anything else. Especially our social anxieties of late and the drive to find a shortcut to life. Nevertheless, there is a lot of potentials here, nothing to the extremes of Skynet or Clippy, but somewhere in the middle of it. Let me explain.
The Good
As AI becomes more common in the workplace, ChatGPT is a tool that can make a big impact in the workplace.
- AI can assist with tasks that involve extensive writing, like generating reports and emails, thereby saving time and allowing us to focus on more crucial tasks.
- It can also provide language translation making it easier for teams who speak different languages to work together and summarization services to condense a large text into a more readable form or generate sample text
- Augmenting information to add more detail to a topic or simply clarifying information.
- Developers have lately heavily used AI to write sample code, which helps them quickly generate small code sets to solve specific problems.
- One of its greatest potentials is to train and improve other AI systems, such as chatbots and virtual assistants, by enabling them to understand and respond to natural language inputs more accurately and efficiently, thereby resulting in an enhanced customer experience.
The Flipside
It’s important to keep in mind the potential hazards of technology becoming prolific in society.
- As a predictive model, ChatGPT holds no morals or ethics. It can only predict what the next word should be. If the technology is misunderstood and trusted to make decisions, it can lead to bias in decision-making. Therefore, it is important to ensure that the data used to train the model is diverse and unbiased. It is also important to take the suggested solutions with a large grain of salt.
- The possibility of fake experts and the creation of AI-backed pseudo-intellectuals. Especially if AI is placed in decision-making positions, it can lead to bias if not well understood.
- The diluting of workforce quality by making it easier for potential employees to cheat on job interview tests.
- As AI tools advance and perform tasks previously done by humans, in particularly mundane and repetitive tasks. We must consider and plan for the impact on the workforce of job displacement caused by AI.
- Finally, it is important to consider the ethical and legal implications of using AI tools, particularly in decision-making and autonomy. It is imperative to ensure that their deployment aligns with ethical standards and existing laws and regulations.
With many applications already in the market adapting to verify ChatGPT and other AI generated text for plagirism like writer.com and Originality.ai
and the Mundane
ChatGPT and other AI tools have the potential to improve workplace efficiency and productivity. However It’s important to consider potential hazards and take steps to mitigate them. Even though AI and AI relted tools are growing at a rapid pace but this blogger will cautiously predict that ChatGPT is more likely to be used in the background technologies, such as in
- chatbots that guide users through tutorials,
- reference bots that answer questions,
- provide code suggestions to improve software efficiency,
- and generate context sensitive automated text responses.
ChatGPT’s natural language capabilities make it more conversational than other AI tools. So rather than becoming a Skynet-like threat, ChatGPT’s biggest impact may be as a backbone service for other products as well as a handytool for research while simontaniously starting a more public race between generating more human like text and catching AI generated text.
In conclusion, welcome to the new Age… this ride might get a little bumpy.
