The BUZZ: ChatGPT

The Buzz: ChatGPT vs the Human Touch

Dan Conn for?www.devops.com?recently discussed the future of ChatGPT, explaining the immense importance of this new technology, while at the same time, highlighting its failure to provide the “human touch.”?

What is ChatGPT? It’s a natural language chatbot currently used to write poems, songs, and even college entrance essays. Since 2015, ChatGPT has been instrumental in writing Python code, and reverse engineer shellcode to rewrite it in C.?

The basics of ChatGPT is, at first sight, amazing. Those eager for practical applications to assist with AI are leaning into this evolving technology, calling it a “game changer.” Considered “very impressive” ChatGPT has become an exciting extension of the endless possibilities that AI text-creation will have in the future; another tool to use when critical thinking isn’t required.?

Conn points out “ChatGPT has impressed a lot of people because it does a good job of simulating human conversation and sounding knowledgeable.” Created by OpenAI in 2015, ChatGPT can program a “large language model trained on large amounts of text pulled from the internet,” and with the help of algorithms, analyze the best text to respond to a specific question by using language that sounds human.

As with all evolving AI technology, there are some issues pointing to its imperfection(s). Most notably, ChatGPT is limited when forced to write content and create code that aligns with similar human behaviors. For example, since the bulk of information in ChatGPT is based off data and not human intelligence, ChatGPt fails to sound well informed. Subtle nuances considered normal in human-to-human exchanges are missed in ChatGPT. Basically, it’s not consistently reliable. Plus, it also has a hard time answering complex math questions. Not to mention the legal elements associated with such technology in preserving intellectual property rights and compliance. Conn added, “We…need humans to create the software people rely on, but that’s not to say there couldn’t be a place for AI in software development.”??

Today, program engineers and developers agree that ChatGPT is not a prelude to robots taking over programming, as the “human touch” is something machines cannot (at??this time) duplicate.?For more information on this topic, or to speak with developers trained in ChatGPT, contact me at [email protected].