ChatGPT encourages creativity. Courtesy | Pix4free

Humans were made to reason. 

Humans use reason to build productivity tools to solve everyday problems. The latest tool is ChatGPT. 

ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence program that can have conversations with its user and respond to nuanced requests. It is a search engine on steroids. 

But where does ChatGPT leave humans? If an AI program is smart enough to write essays, make complex business calculations, and generate data, then what happens to people’s jobs? Will ChatGPT result in mass unemployment? 

“How many journalists can ChatGPT replace?” In an article published by Broadcast Dialogue, journalist Connie Thiessen asks this very question. ChatGPT responded by saying that although it has the potential of changing the “nature of the work” required in the journalism field, such as generating rough drafts of articles, “it is unlikely to be able to replace the creativity, insight, and human judgment that are essential to journalism.”

ChatGPT just pointed out three things that make humans unique: creativity, insight, and human judgment. These qualities indicate that humans have a unique ability to reason. 

If you ask young kids what their favorite ice cream flavor is, they are bound to declare their opinionated thoughts with great enthusiasm. And, if you tell them you disagree, they are sure to explain why their favorite ice cream flavor is in fact the best.

Ultimately, ChatGPT has the potential to cause many people to lose their jobs. It would be ignorant to think otherwise. With each new wave of technological advancements, some technological equipment has taken the place of humans. Telephone operators cease to exist because of the technological advancements that allow for people to dial a number and get to the person they are trying to reach. 

But ChatGPT is being assessed on its ability to take over the jobs of humans as a whole. This asserts that humans will not be necessary to complete any tasks.

This cannot be the case because it was a group of humans who used their creativity to design ChatGPT. This group then used their insight on the world around them to find solutions for problems that ChatGPT had the power to fix. 

ChatGPT can only do what humans allow it to do. Humans can never stop innovating because it would mean discontinuing their ability to reason. Only humans possess the judgment to know what to do with their creation. The invention of ChatGPT calls for humans to use reason in order to understand their role in society and how AI can play a part of it.