Your thoughts are appreciated and thanks for sharing. One also needs to remember what happened initially to Google searches, we were in awe, and for a good reason, only a short while later to discover how much data is being collected and distributed with or without our consent. The privacy concern is that the same will happen with ChatGPT if it is not already happening. Especially when it is introduced between you and the recipients of your emails. As you have witnessed already it tries to influence your writing, your thoughts could be next. This thing can correlate events, places, and people with ease and storage is very affordable these days. I'm not saying they do that, I'm saying they easily can and no one will stop them. I'm trying hard NOT to play data privacy freak with myself but I'm afraid I'm losing this battle... :-) I thought I would share...

Nice reflections. To me, generative AI long-term has one role only. It should be to act as our interface with other specialised and narrowly trained AIs. To help in writing better prompts itself.

There’s just no way, that one AI can be better at general tasks than another that is highly trained. One that is built for a completely bespoke purpose. One that is trained on a very rich and restricted dataset.

Generative AI can be better than us, sure, but it is not optimal or going to lead to groundbreaking results that we may see by using more specialised ones.

There’s no way we would trust the talent of the average doctor in the world, to fix our very specific problems, to be our surgeon, when the world is full of extremely talented and specialised doctors that have been trained to specifically solve the problem(s) we are experiencing. That original doctor’s only role should be to present options to us and to find the path to the best doctor in the business for us.

Using generative AI (ChatGPT) and expecting it to solve all our problems, and to do so better than us, and in our style, and to not mislead us, when it knows we are seeking its advice, is asking a little too much I feel.

OpenAI is going to fail in their endeavours. I have reached that conclusion recently. The future is us training our own models in my opinion on our own datasets, or leveraging those found in the market that have generated the types of results we are looking for. No walled garden can outcompete that.

ChatGPT is going to continue to be loaded with ballast and sandbags, that drags down the quality of its output. You have already seen that with their models. The number of parameters for an organisation like theirs is going to decrease in usefulness not increase IMHO. Even if it allows you to upload docs, interface with databases etc.

The role of education I hope would be on training models in my opinion, not just prompts. If we want AI to think like us but be better than us, consistent quality results depend on taking control of the inputs. Not just requesting new outputs.

This is something I've been thinking about. I haven't touched many Ai programs because it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth from the uncertainty of the changes it will make to the conflict in genuine work vs ai prompts, which you mention here. Also the speed is alarming to me, as it is for you. My stance now is that my personal writing means more to me to pursue and to struggle through than whatever time ai can save me. I am just watching it play out. I've only used chatGPT to summarize legal documents, which I recognize is useful and wonderful. This is just to say it is a nuanced issue, one that I am thinking about too. Cheers, thanks for sharing

interesting thoughts, and I think you are experiencing what we all are experiencing. That is why your words ring true. I am believer that even though Ai does a lot of work for you and improves your work. the net effect is that you improve as well. For example when you use a spelling corrector, after you have been corrected 2-3 times on the same word, you automatically spell the word correctly afterwards. that is what is happening to us with AI at a much higher level