In late December 2022, I stumbled upon ChatGPT, an AI chatbot that promised to be much faster than Google Guru. I was intrigued by the idea of a new tool that could potentially revolutionize the way we access and process information. As someone who had always relied on Google for answers, I was curious to see what ChatGPT had to offer.
I asked around among my
group of senior citizen friends, and was surprised to find that only one of
them had heard of ChatGPT. But as I continued to follow the news on this AI
tool, I noticed a significant change in the way people perceived it. The youth,
in particular, seemed to be aware of ChatGPT and its capabilities, and many had
even used it for various purposes.
From what I learned
through Wikipedia, ChatGPT seemed to be a versatile chatbot that could do much
more than just answer questions. It could write programs, compose music,
essays, poetry and even simulate an entire chat room. While its uneven factual
accuracy was a drawback, its potential seemed limitless.
I was particularly
impressed when a content writer suggested me that I use ChatGPT to write blogs
for my mission NEVER SAY RETIRED (www.neversayretired.in). It was even possible
to get a book written on the mission using this AI tool! However, I wondered if
relying too much on AI would kill our thinking capabilities. Would we become
incapable idiots if we depended too much on ChatGPT to do our thinking for us?
Some people had already
raised concerns that AI would overtake natural stupidity, making us even
dumber. Majority of students I spoke to had already used ChatGPT to answer
their exam questions. But if all our learning and thinking were done by AI,
what would be the use of a teacher? Would we even need to learn anything at
all?
