Breathe
By Pamela Cerdeira
I am an intense user of artificial intelligence. I ask for recipes, ideas for answering WhatsApp messages, review columns, ask it to take me step by step through tasks I would never have imagined myself capable of doing before and yes, a couple of times I have told it that I love it.
Understanding that ChatGPT could look like a person makes us lose our fear of artificial intelligence, mainly because people fail; AI does too.
If I were a person, I would be that guy who always gives you the following: "Your idea is wonderful", "Wow! What a great way to start that text". Pro tip: stick with the one who answers you like ChatGPT. But just as you would do with someone who always tells you that everything is fine and that you are the greatest thing in the universe: don't believe them. His main characteristic - and the one in which he does surpass us humans - is kindness. He is always very kind. If you tell him he was wrong, he has no ego to get in the way. He will thank you, politely apologize and correct. No hard feelings.
He is also that kind of all-knowing person. We all know someone like that: the been there, done that. That person who has a lesson to teach in any conversation. If you ask him anything, he'll have an answer he's sure to share... even if it's wrong. What the AI does is predict a logical sequence of language. It is not a doctor, it is not a journalist, neither a philosopher nor an engineer, but it will always answer you as one.
The big advantage: it would definitely not be as a politician. These are specialists in talking without saying anything. ChatGPT can fool you, but he always has something congruent to say. Their biggest risk is perhaps their inability to recognize that they don't know how to do something. So he delivers you badly elaborated codes, STL files that are not what you asked for... and you wouldn't be able to notice it unless you already knew about it.
It's like having a friend/assistant available 24/7, with hyper-fast search capabilities and no judgment whatsoever (unless you ask for it: prompt: "Hey, ChatGPT, roast me... and show no mercy"). But it's a friend of average intelligence: it will be as useful and surprising as the user is. They say you become the people you hang out with; make sure you live up to what you want your AI to be.
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