Let’s first get a measure of human progress pace. Hitherto, progress was measured in centuries like Industrial Revolution 1760-1840. In 20th Century, changes started to happen in decades like relativity, nuclear developments, space technologies, information revolution, internet etc. List is too long if we take into account every field of human progress like philosophy, medicine, agriculture, etc. However, at the turn of millennia, pace of change became nauseously fast. Changes started to take affect on yearly basis like AI, nanotechnology, commercial voyages to outer space, Metaverse and now Chat GPT. I skipped a heartbeat thinking what would happen to our next generations if they stop writing & have excessive reliance on AI? What would happen to creativity-the very essence of human edge over rest of the creations? Good news is Chat GPT is only a helpful tool to get the best probable outcome from existing data. Pretty much an end of an era where Google as search engine literally steered the whole world for info savvy users. Sundar Pichai might have to come up with something more interesting, innovative and inspiring or look for a better job.
Chat GPT is not a winner either. It will offer quick fixes and ready solutions to emails, searches, routine work etc. But, it will hamper creative process because it will give ready answers to every assignment which if attempted by the learner specially kids, college & university students -may be less accomplished but would remain an original work. But if the same individual has to attempt something new, original and worthwhile, would be handicapped to produce the desired goods.
So we can safely conclude that in times to come originality and creativity shall become a novelty. RIP Google but not creativity for now.
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