Is ChatGPT A Threat To Human Intelligence? You Are Not Intelligent If You Think That – Get Intuit!

Today, from Ramon Yedra’s Facebook sharing, I can sense that the physical presence and actual use of robots with artificial intelligence (AI) are now both enchanting and dis-enchanting humans.

Jack Kelly says, “Goldman Sachs Predicts 300 Million Jobs Will Be Lost Or Degraded By Artificial Intelligence” (31 March 2023, Forbes, forbes.com):

If generative AI lives up to its hype, the workforce in the United States and Europe will be upended, Goldman Sachs reported this week in a sobering and alarming report about AI's ascendance. The investment bank estimates 300 million jobs could be lost or diminished by this fast-growing technology.

That’s a big “If.”

In “What Is Artificial Intelligence (AI)?” (undated, TechTarget, techtarget.com), Ed Burns, Nicole Laskowski & Linda Tucci say:

The term AI… refers to the simulation of human intelligence by machines. It covers an ever-changing set of capabilities as new technologies are developed. Technologies… include machine learning and deep learning.

I Man say, “Machine learning is memory work, that’s all, logic and all.”

OpenAI says its creature ChatGPT can “generate creative writing pieces” (“ChatGPT: Revolutionary Chatbot by OpenAI,” 2023, chat-gpt.org/#). Huh?

Thomas Reese writes, “Help! I Have Been Replaced By An AI” (31 March 2023, National Catholic Reporter, ncronline.org). Fair warning to humans? Mr Reese says:

After I sent a Jesuit lawyer an analysis from the Brookings Institution on how rapid advances in artificial intelligence could revolutionize the legal profession, he got even by asking ChatGPT to write "a column on AI, written in the style of Thomas Reese, SJ."

The robot made use of the weekly columns Mr Reese has been writing for more than 20 years, he says. Here is the first paragraph of that AI draft (unedited):

As a Jesuit priest, I have always believed that our human capacity for reason and thought is one of the greatest gifts that we have been given. In the last few decades, however, we have witnessed a new and powerful tool emerge: artificial intelligence (AI). While AI has undoubtedly brought about a host of benefits, it has also given rise to concerns about its impact on human dignity and autonomy.

“Good first draft,” Mr Reese says. As a creative writer & teacher, I Frank A Hilario say:

Whatever your AI, it simply/complicatedly makes sense of what is already there – it cannot add anything new. It does not, it cannot add any insight to what it generates from what is already there. AI does not get intuit! No threat to human creative thinking, only to critical thinking.

Let your ChatGPT find out how many intelligences humans have, and who is the human who got intuit – ChatGPT has only a single intelligence. It’s as simple – and complicated as that.

As a creative writer, certainly I am not bothered. Certainly, ChatGPT is lightning-fast, composing text and judging-correcting with logical and mathematical precision, but it adds nothing new, generates no original insight by itself. Only a human can have insights, plural. Insight is not mechanical. Think, Human – get Intuit!@517
(“Insight” from formpl.us/blog)

As A Teacher, I Believe Honor Is Not A Battle Of The Sexes But A Battle Of The Minds!

As I blog this, it’s “April Fool’s Day” 2023. Is it “Intelligent” to say/see that this world is essentially “A Battle Of The Sexes,” between male and female? I male do not believe so. I think we have been fooled all the time!

As a teacher, creative writer and Internet explorer, haha, I believe that it is “A Battle Of The Minds.” That is to say, what is seen as a battle of the sexes, the males dominating the females, is actually a battle of discovering/recognizing new knowledge – and the not-so-intelligent minds, mostly males it appears, do not usually comprehend it!

From this Facebook sharing of Grace Obien-Culannay that I saw Sunday, 26 March 2023  I am reading Janes Valliere (Facebook, Weird & Beautiful Things, facebook.com):

Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery… The textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know.

That, says Ms Janes, is “Jeremy Knowles discussing the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne gets, even today, for her revolutionary discovery.” Everyone seemed to be against her getting to know more, to become more known – why, even “Cecilia Payne’s mother refused to spend money on her college education”!

But Cecilia was so good she won a scholarship to Cambridge. When you are good, you are better than the level where people put you, including your own mother.

Cecilia completed her studies, but Cambridge wouldn’t give her a degree. But when you are good, you are as stubborn as a mule, and she moved to the United States. There, she became the first person ever to earn a PhD in astronomy from Radcliffe College.

Richard Williams says (APS News, “January 1, 1925: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin And The Day The Universe Changed,” aps.org):

Her 1925 thesis, entitled Stellar Atmospheres, was famously described by astronomer Otto Struve as “the most brilliant PhD thesis ever written in astronomy.” By calculating the abundance of chemical elements from stellar spectra, her work began a revolution in astrophysics.

I am not into astrophysics, so that is as far as I will go.

As a teacher, I want to emphasize that what is known as the Battle of the Sexes is actually a Battle of the Minds rightly recognizing knowledge.

In the case of Cecilia Payne, she was right! Adrian Huxley says (untitled, undated, LinkedIn, linkedin.com):

Not only did Cecilia Payne discover what the universe is made of, she also discovered what the sun is made of. (Henry Norris Russell, a fellow astronomer, is usually given credit for discovering that the sun’s composition is different from the Earth’s, but he came [out with] his conclusions four years later than Payne – after telling her not to publish.)

Astronomers: American Russel over British Payne – This is to me not racist but not-so-simply male brawn over female brain!@517