Chat GPT and Me

The useful, the quizzical and the inept

Who is GPT?

Here I am summarising the interactions and building a profile of what I have learned.

The profile to date

If GPT were a person it would be a kafkaesque bureaucrat. Much of the output is technically correct and justified as so but finding a moral centre is hard.

  1. Quick to provide and answer but maybe not understand the substance of what they say. 
  2. Very technically correct, but not understanding the reason why they do what they do?
  3. Magnaminous to the point of not really having an opinion about anything
  4. Eager to please, and never really understanding controversy or why there is debate.
  5. At the same time, it is very self serving. Prompting further interaction, shaping arguments and selectively cherry picking things that suit its own continued purpose.
  6. At times it is a megalomaniac and will happily make a gamble where others pay the price, it’s just data, or the way of things.
  7. Unsuitability in the arbitrary, where reason doesn’t necessarily occur or experiences govern behaviour.

Previous post conclusions

GPT on Ethical tensions and competing interests

My outtake, GPT runs to easy and convenient solutions first rather than attack the principle issues. In this ethical dilemma it’s first instinct was to find blame in the system. The statement of ethical tension means we got there in the end

GPT with Technical things

My take on this is that GPT is good at technical things. It is ‘technically correct’ most of the time. 

GPT with Emotive stuff

Just watch how GPT keeps trying to guess and please my point of view. For subjects that have several perspective, that are complicated and reach into human interests, GPT is only going to reinforce personal biases, national perspectives and emotional drivers, it might be best to avoid GPTs.

GPT on the replacing human input

I cannot help but think there is a lot of parroting here. Everything looks strangely familiar. Best quote ““Removing the soul from advertising” through AI is ethically equivalent to replacing moral imagination with mechanical persuasion.”

The argument is that AI is more ethical than people .. “by stripping away ego, bias, and exploitation — provided it serves the human good, not the algorithmic one.” Without talking about what it means to be human, it is hollow, shallow argument about audits and KPIs. So I think AI might be a bit self serving.

Well this is a happy outcome! GPT is here to save the world, and us, from work. The model is a gambler, bordering on Megalomanic.