Consider the recent scenario which took place a few days ago with John, a high school grader, a loner and in a troubled relationship. He knows that talking out with people might eventually solve the issues going on with Nancy, his partner, however, out of fear of being judged, decides to instead use ChatGPT. This virtual friend, who everyone talks about, has previously been his aide when he needed to submit an assignment and even the deadline was dead or when he wanted to mass email people for college admissions. He inputs the things, he thinks are the problems and asks for some advice. 

He reads the answers given and not being satisfied, and as happens with humans who dive deeper into problems considering the different angles, he submits another query, similar in nature but different in context. He is again prompted with the same set of strategies and methods and this irritates him. Although irritated, he understands that these AI tools are Large Language Models (LLMs). These give results based on the training data, and the exact keywords are pretty important, so he frames the question in different words. Upon submitting, he is again bombarded with similar solutions. 

Why Do We Never Focus On The Artificial Part of AI?

AI is an acronym for Artificial Intelligence, but humans somehow ignore the first half of AI, i.e. Artificial, and are on their toes when discussing the intelligence part. They are dumbstruck to see something write, talk, create music, design and even paint like humans. They are ready to bow down and at last breathe calmly, for their search for beings, superior to humans has finally ended, even though machines. 

However, this intelligence is a result of the enormous data, already existing and accumulated throughout the years, which is fed to these superior beings and they just fish about in the pond to produce the results. Although they may write short stories and create music, which may sound unique to the human mind, but nay. It is the result of infinite permutations and combinations, of the data provided, that the machine can do in seconds. 

Humans And Their Lust For Creativity

Creativity has always been the forerunner of human evolution and civilisation and the reason why we are the dominant species, for without it, you and I might be the Ugga and Grug of Croods. Creativity is accompanied by emotional intelligence, ethical judgement and intuition, which altogether are the tools for carving and helping in shaping unique and original ideas. The music from AI will lack the depth and the personal touch each composer puts into the rhythm and lyrics. The stories will not have words aroused from the fire in eyes, or love in heart and that joy of writing which ultimately reflects in the tears or laughter of the reader. 

These tools are good for performing repetitive and laborious tasks, such as writing the basic source code for designing a website. Having done that, the energy can be now utilised in fields of only designing and thinking and coming up with new ideas. As they are capable of quickly analysing large amounts of data, the basic step of identifying the problem is completed within seconds, and the focus can be completely upon coming up with a solution. 

Final Thoughts

Although professionals may argue against the use of AI tools in day-to-day work, it is a fact that they are on the floor and used rigorously by freelancers. If they need to stay in the game, people will have to adapt to using them and think of ways where they can be utilised to their full potential. As for the part of creativity, the lack of spontaneous and metaphorical thinking by these tools and the existence of neural networks in human brains which can simulate infinite creative thoughts, will always ensure that we have natural intelligence. Dear John, go talk to your friend Jacob, for ChatGPT lacks emotional understanding of human relations.