Chat GPT or how the world just sped up overnight
We present to you what we think is the most historic tweet of the year, if not the decade, in terms of technology. And the tweet that went around the world in seconds, but it also changed the speeds at which it spins
Welcome to the Post-ChatGPT era.
Artificial intelligence is here and it’s here for everyone. As of November 30th, humanity has also entered a new trajectory, which is going to change the world as we know it. In what direction, unknown. Essentially, however, the big step has been taken.
We are talking about the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the Artificial Intelligence bot that is based/trained on a large language model (Language Model), which gives answers to all kinds of questions.
How do you use it? Simple. You ask.
Of course, you will know the phrase “what you give you get”, and this is absolutely true here. The whole point of this technology lies more in the question and less in the answer.
But let’s take things from the beginning. On November 30tht, the company OpenAI launched this particular chat — an event that “stopped” the world for a while and impressed even people who deal with new technologies and who are not easily impressed -. This happened because this particular technology/model turned the page of the human-technology relationship book.
What will a chat affect us, you may ask. Why so much waste? And we answer: In many more areas of our lives than we think. Let’s consider just a few of them:
- Education
According to the following tweet: “we are witnessing the end of the classic academic/school essay…A-worthy work (A minus is the immediately lower grade than A which denotes excellent performance) in 10 seconds.” And in time, the transition to an education system that will utilize technology as a tool but also the slow death of the education system as we know it, which has its roots in the industrial revolution.
2. Just learning
The change also concerns non-formal educational environments (non-formal education) as well as any type of work. As OpenAI CEO Sam Altman himself puts it: “…soon you’ll be able to have helpful assistants that can talk to you, answer questions, and give you advice. Later, you’ll be able to have something that does tasks that you assign to it. At some point in the future you will be able to have something that will discover new knowledge about you.”
3. Coding, Bug Fixing & build an app
4.Music/ art
5. Recruitment/ Human resources
ChatGPT, as a Product Manager candidate “scores above average” according to Workable CEO, Nikos Moraitakis.
6. Content creation
The best content creators will continue to be amazing simply by “hiring” and training ChatGPT assistants to adopt their research and writing style.
7. Any job
More and more people are now seeing, first hand, the last days, something that some very skilled analysts & academics have long predicted. Just doing their job: doing thorough research & writing.
a) Kevin Drum in his article “Welcome, Robot Overlords. Please Don’t Fire Us?” for Mother Jones, shared the reasons why “Smart machines probably won’t kill us all — but they will definitely take our jobs, and sooner than we think,” all of which he wrote in… May 2013!
b) The Genius*, Tim Urban
* Our definition of a genius is: one who has the ability to a) convert extremely complex concepts into simple linguistic/mathematical/mental models, and b) ideally present them in an easily understandable form, even for a child . With a phrase in Greek: “He who tames the unknown.” -
c) But before all these brilliant minds, let’s acknowledge the “patriarch”, Oxford professor-philosopher Nick Bolstrom, who coined or popularized most of the terms that help us code what’s coming today: superintelligence, AGI & the various maturity stages of artificial intelligence, singularity.
Educators or anyone designing curricula and educational policies should have a basic understanding of the concepts/terms from the book “Superintelligence”.
If you are an educator, we would suggest asking your students to write down their thoughts on Bostrom’s simulation argument: Are we living in a simulation? The chances of us living in the matrix are quite high. Of note, Bostrom wrote the first draft of this paper in… 2001. It is so fun and instructive about the human psyche to see how people feel & argue about this case.
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- However, ChatGPT gives many wrong answers to simple problems, including simple math operations.
- There are many loopholes that many take advantage of to get answers to unethical questions.
- If you don’t have a good understanding of the domain you’re asking about, and the question contains a wrong assumption, ChatGPT — as well as AI bots based on similar Large Language Models e.g. Facebook’s Galactica (see “Human jobs are safe for now”, paragraph 12) — tends to satisfy this false assumption.
Why; The brilliant Cassie Kozyrkov, Google’s Chief Decision Scientist, perfectly explains why in a plot-twist article, telling us that we need to integrate the new features into our work considering that… “ChatGPT is a bullshitter”:
QUESTIONS & THOUGHTS
- Did the world change overnight?
Yes. To be precise, the technology has been available for quite some time. chat.openai simply democratizes access to it, making it very user-friendly for all of us.
— What and who is left behind?
We are witnessing the end of education and answer-oriented businesses. Those who cling to the traditional learning model will see smaller, more nimble businesses, people and organizations open to productive experimentation vastly outperform them on all fronts. History will overtake them.
— What’s going to happen? Or what is left for humans?
Optimistic scenario: It is a great opportunity to raise human consciousness, focusing on creativity, collaboration & critical thinking. A growing percentage of people will learn how to ask better questions. This is actually a measurable & teachable skill. And that’s what we do at The Tipping Point and 100mentors.
Education and lifelong learning will finally focus on soft/durable skills such as critical thinking, problem solving and creativity. Curiosity and a high sense of ownership (learning attitude & ability to reinvent/reinvent yourself) will become the #1 trait employers will be looking for.
Dystopian scenario: a long period of turbulence until we get — if we ever do — to a level of human consciousness, and rational institutionalization, capable of managing the capabilities of this technology and channeling them into productive purposes.
— Who will best take advantage of this new feature?
Humans and organizations made up of people who know/learn how to ask probing (= Wonderment Vs Basic information) questions will get the most out of this technology. Simply because the dialogue between such people and the “machine” will raise even more fascinating questions that have yet to be explored.
Those who know how to “come back” with better/improved questions after failure, more quickly, will enjoy higher rates of innovation and become leaders in their field.
And now the million dollar question:
What kind of schools do we need?
We don’t know exactly, but inquiry based learning is becoming a necessity, not an option anymore. Imagine a school where students learn a) how to constantly reinvent themselves, b) without losing their minds/identity/moral orientation and principles
Learning how to keep your mental balance in such a world will be just as important as basic algebra.
Harari in his “21 lessons for the 21st century” raises the idea of the four C’s: critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity as the guiding principles for curriculum. Or in brief: “schools should downplay technical skills and emphasize general-purpose life skills” (305). Humans in 2030 need to be adaptable, flexible, and able to learn in new situations. In order to keep up they will need to reinvent themselves again and again such is the predicted pace of forthcoming change: “change itself is the only certainty” (306). How can students be prepared for this if they are being taught by teachers who were a product of the old education system? The production line theory of education is still woven into the fabric of our current systems — and this is largely because “we haven’t created a viable alternative” (309).
For closing, we asked this (we’re curious by nature):
The response makes us particularly proud. You can see why by discovering, if you haven’t already, the Topics feature we use at both The Tipping Point and 100mentors.
For more information, you can contact Amalia Konstantakopoulou, Co-Founder & Director of The Tipping Point and Yiorgos Nikoletakis, CEO of 100mentors.