ChatGPT isn't an enemy, but a partner - Chinadaily.com.cn
ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence-based chatbot, has been developed using simulated neural networks that mimic human brain functions. However, it is crucial to understand that these networks, although capable of processing information, fall short of replicating the complexity of human thought processes, which are shaped by the life experiences and emotional wisdom of individuals.
The human brain processes information through sensory input that is transmitted through neuron networks via electrical and chemical signals. These interactions among neurons are shaped by experience and learning, leading to the formation of connections that strengthen or weaken based on the frequency and timing of their activation. Thus, while artificial intelligence can simulate some of the human brain's processes, it cannot replicate the nuances of human thought and behavior.
As a result of this fundamental difference in learning approaches, ChatGPT and other chatbots' emotional inadequacy prevents them from producing creative works or results that emotionally resonate with their audience. Their lack of broader contextual understanding and intuition that comes with human personal experience and expertise handicaps their imagination and artistic license to produce creative works that are emotionally relatable to the audience.
Renowned Hong Kong film director Teddy Chan Tak-sum challenged ChatGPT to write a 300-word letter "from a son to his father before he left his hometown to pursue a filmmaking career in Teddy Chan's style". While ChatGPT's rendition perfectly ticks all the boxes fed in the prompts, it falls flat in terms of its tone and effect of storytelling. It reads more scholarly, scripted, and programmed from a collection of sources and less spontaneous, fluid, and heartfelt, creating a void at the core, emotionally alienating the readers.
The dearth of personal, firsthand experience in ChatGPT explains why nuanced, granular, and vivid accounts are absent in its letter. In contrast, a letter inspired by the true tales with one's father affords the letter flesh and bones, prompting an emotional attachment and resonance among readers. Personal experience anchors the author in the right frame of mind or memory to express through language.
Arts exist for emotional correspondence, and it is impossible to replace writers, screenwriters, and creatives in the film and TV industry with Chatbots that lack emotion and sentience. Recent AI-generated photography has been able to win creative awards, prompting discussions on the future of creative genres. While creative is creative, AI's technological capabilities should be used to enhance and not replace human creativity.
Encounters with AI are inevitable, and it is important to embrace them with an open mind, adapt to the machine-human relationship that is increasingly leaning toward symbiosis, instead of dwelling on the question of being supplanted by ChatGPT or not. ChatGPT isn't an enemy, but a partner.
