More ideas for chatGPT

Playtime!

I think the world is divided into two types of people: those obsessed with what creative AI means for their work & future and those who haven’t really tried creative AI yet. To be clear, a lot of people in the second category have technically tried AI systems and thought they were amusing, but not useful. It is easy to be decieved, because we naturally tend try out AI in a way that highlights their weaknesses, not their strengths.

My goal in this post is to give you four experiments you can do, in less than 10 minutes each, with the free ChatGPT, in order to understand why you should care about it. In fact, there are three levels to this AI revelation, and I want to explain why people get stuck at the first two, before giving you activities that might get you to the third:

1. This is a toy

2. This is a great way to create lots of written work (at this phase, people start to think about cheating on essays)

3. This changes so many things

People think it is a toy because the first thing you try to do with AI is what it is worst at: First, you use it like Google: tell me what the best city is, who is the best soccer player in history, and so on. These answers are terrible. They are limited to before 2021, they are often wrong, and they are really boring to read. Right now, AI is not Google. So people leave disappointed.

Second, they may try something speculative, using it like Alexa, and asking a question, often about the AI itself. Will AI take my job? What do you like to eat? These answers are also terrible. Creative AI systems have no personality or sense of self, are not programmed to be fun like Alexa, and are not an oracle for the future.