Wednesday 29 March 2023

On the Creative AI rush

It is weird how people react these days about Creative AI, especially ChatGPT. It was released a few months ago and many people already have developed an addiction on it while many others hate it or are afraid of it passionately.

How can serious professionals depend on a chat bot on their daily work? From my perspective they are either not serious or not professionals. Using such a great tool is reasonable but suddenly to depend on it out of the blue is  not rational. When the service stopped a few days ago some people were panicked. Really???

It is actually a great tool and has many programming potentials. The statement that these capabilities will some day signal the end of programming is not accurate. Trivial programming has passed away long ago. There are many tools and websites that actually help you build applications in seconds, it is not only chatGPT. But really innovative programming cannot be created by such chat bots that only use the knowledge that they have from their training and cannot, at least yet, create knowledge and science.

About the fear on the use of AI. Well, as any other technological achievement it can be used for the good or the bad, for the best or the worst of humanity. You can use a knife to cook or kill, on the same spirit you can use AI to detect and treat cancer or manipulate the elections.