I may be replaced by ChatGPT as a writer

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　　Just before typing the headline, I said to a chatbot: "Describe a dangerous cabin in the woods."

　　In less than 10 seconds, the following answer popped up on the screen:

　　"The cabin is located deep in the forest, dark and quiet, full of mystery. Surrounded by fallen leaves, the branches are piercing; the wind blows past the cabin, and leaves fall one after another. The roar of wild animals comes from a distance, making people shudder The door of the cabin is tightly closed, and there is a legend that a mysterious old man lives here, and sometimes he can be seen appearing in the forest, sometimes disappearing.”

　　Vivid, informative and engaging!

　　After seeing this description, an idea popped up in my mind involuntarily.

If I let AI finish this manuscript for me, will the editor not be able to find out?

　　The next thought was, if the editor finally realizes this, will he ask me, a living reporter, to leave, and hand over the manuscripts to AI to write, it seems not impossible?

　　After realizing this possibility, the cold icy rain patted on my heart indiscriminately.

　　I have to admit that as a reporter who often writes popular science articles, I am no stranger to the development of AI's creative ability. Last year, I also drew a few pictures with AI with the mentality of trying to play.

　　Maybe it's not just me who has an unemployment crisis.

　　In 2017, the artificial intelligence software CheXnet was able to quickly process hundreds of chest X-ray images and find out cases of pneumonia infection. Xiaobai has grown into a diagnostic expert.

Also in 2017, many people probably still remember that Ke Jie, the world's number one Go champion, was defeated by "Alpha Dog".

American technology media CNET has been using AI to create some content since November last year, and readers don't seem to be aware of this.

　　Today, ChatGPT, a large-scale language model trained by OpenAI, is so popular that many people discuss it on social media, expressing surprise or concern.

ChatGPT can do too many things - help college students write papers, help "community animals" write reports, answer emails, "help" programmers and lawyers... and the American digital media company BuzzFeed on the other side of the ocean has announced that it will use ChatGPT To help create personalized content, 12% of the company's workforce will be laid off.

　　Look, I, the writer, might really be replaced by AI, like the female worker who was replaced by the loom jenny.

　　Machines replace manpower, which seems to be a topic that has lasted for hundreds of years. While people are discussing, old jobs or occupations disappear, and new occupations and new opportunities are constantly emerging.

Five years ago, I still felt that those who engage in creation "can temporarily rest assured" that they will be replaced by AI.

However, in the blink of an eye, the wheel of history ran over my face.

　　It cannot be denied that artificial intelligence has not yet replaced humans in terms of performing more creative work.

Its advantages are more reflected in imitation and learning. It seems that it is very suitable to entrust the regular and uniform practical writing to it, and it can also liberate human beings from repetitive labor.

　　I can "feed" it a news template, throw in a few keywords, and a news article that doesn't need any creativity may appear.

At least for now, artificial intelligence is still unable to write something that expresses strong personal emotions-like the one I am writing now.

　　But I don't dare to say "don't worry".

Artificial intelligence is rapidly iterating and developing rapidly.

A qualitative leap and a bottleneck breakthrough, maybe in the next 5 years, or even 5 months?

　　Well, if I am really replaced by AI, then I might consider being a person who "feeds" AI with text, and writes a lot of text "feed" to it every day, so that it can be broken , Take it to write a new one for others.

Maybe there will really be such a new profession. After all, the powerful grasping and deep learning capabilities of artificial intelligence require a huge database as a source of learning.

　　In the face of technological progress and the torrent of the times, panic is meaningless.

What we need to adjust is not only the mentality of individuals, but also the society to support the changes in production relations brought about by technological development.

　　Finally, I opened the robot's chat box again, and this time I asked it: "What will the relationship between humans and AI look like in the future?"

　　"Humans and AI may be in a cooperative relationship to achieve more efficient productivity, but there may also be competition and confrontation. Future development depends on the coordination between humans and AI."

　　it says.

　　China Youth Daily China Youth Daily reporter Zhang Miao Source: China Youth Daily