Key Points
Former chess world champion Garry Kasparov, reflecting on how brute-force search algorithms routinely beat chess grandmasters, declares in his memoirDeep Thinking(2017), Chess just isnt complex enough...
When a stochastic parrot codes better than I do, where does that leave me as a software engineer?.
ChatGPT is arguably already better than its human counterparts at corporate and NGO consulting, a specialised creative writing enterprise if we are being honest..
Sure, the mechanism through which ChatGPT writes a story is different to how a human would write, but if the final form is compelling, should the process really matter?..
Take, for instance, this remark from Max Tegmark, a renowned physicist attached to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Everything we love about civilisation is a product of intelligence, so amplifying our human intelligence with artificial intelligence has the potential of helping civilisation flourish like never before..
