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As technology continues to advance, it will become harder and harder for humans to sound human. Computers are already being used to help people write comments o
by lucidguppy 4y ago
As technology continues to advance, it will become harder and harder for humans to sound human. Computers are already being used to help people write comments on social media that sound more natural. The internet is transforming into a two sided coin: an application deployment mechanism on one side, and broadcast television from the 20th century on the other. This means that the way we consume information is devolving rapidly, with no signs of stopping anytime soon.
^^^ Above was "helped" by AI. I wrote some bullet points, ran the tool, and then massaged the results. I wonder if AI will be the "excel spreadsheet" of general writing. It will act as an interpreter between our brains and the brains of others. The AI revolution won't be all bad, just mostly bad. We'll want to know what's purely manufactured (with minimal human input) and what's been generated in an AI/human co-generation session.
- tiborsaas 4y agoI've just seen a friend's post on FB marketplace to rent out one of his apartments. It was full of grammar mistakes and oddly placed information. ChatGPT would probably have done a much better job so as long as the generated text is supervised. As long as the generated content is useful, we are probably better off.
- urbandw311er 4y agoTrue but possibly quite short-termist. Maybe your friend would be better off initially in that his post would be more legible. But a better solution for the human race would be for him to attend English writing classes rather than perpetuate reliance on machines to the point when, one day, nobody will lean to write coherently at all.
- mwigdahl 4y agoThe same argument could be made about calculators, or slide rules for that matter.
- urbandw311er 4y agoYes, it could - and should! We shouldn't give up on teaching maths because of calculators.
- int_19h 4y agoWe didn't. But we did give up on teaching a lot of outdated manual computation techniques, because they aren't broadly relevant anymore.
- potta_coffee 4y agoBut if we all rely on machines perpetually and our English comprehension skills degrade, we won't recognize if a post is written poorly. We just need standards to slip more, then all of our writing will be "good".