Gregory Michael Steinberg has earned a reputation as a leading IT professional. He’s noticed recently that anyone and everyone he meets nowadays wants to discuss ChatGPT. There seems to be two camps: Those who believe ChatGPT is the greatest technology ever launched, and those who believe ChatGPT is going to take away the jobs of every hardworking citizen across the globe. Of course, the truth lies somewhere in the middle. Today, Gregory Michael Steinberg will shed some light on the good and the bad that comes from the usage of ChatGPT.
There are many pros to ChatGPT usage. For instance, anyone who has ever struggled with brainstorming a topic for a blog post can simply enter an idea and have ChatGPT provide a laundry list of viable options. Gregory Michael Steinberg notes that a person can then put their own spin on that topic in order to make it unique. The more data that is entered from a user on ChatGPT the more the automated learning system will begin to form an “understanding” of the user. Because of this, many people are using ChatGPT for food recommendations, health advice and even movie recommendations based on their specific interests.
Other positive examples of ChatGPT, according to Gregory Michael Steinberg include:
- Serves as a Writing Assistant
- Summarizes Entire Research Papers in Minutes
- Translate Texts in More Than 95 Different Languages
- Serves as a Travel Assistant
- Find Data Sets
- Create Music Lyrics
Gregory Michael Steinberg notes that ChatGPT isn’t an inherently good or evil piece of technology. Most of the responsibility falls on the user to leverage ChatGPT for the proper purposes. Still, there have already been plenty of examples of ChatGPT being utilized for nefarious purposes.
It used to be that people grew wise of email scams as a poorly written email was a clear indicator that the email asking them for money was a scam. Today, scammers can have ChatGPT spit out multiple highly persuasive emails to collect funds for a wide array of purposes. People need to be on higher alert than ever, or they can fall susceptible to scams perpetuated by the use of ChatGPT and other text bots.
There have been countless examples since the launch of ChatGPT of businesses trying to save a buck by utilizing ChatGPT for their coding needs. While it is true that ChatGPT can code, Gregory Michael Steinberg notes that it is far from flawless. Again, people who know how to enter prompts correctly can even ask ChatGPT to create malware, ransomware and other software that serves no positive purpose.
Teachers across the globe are lamenting the fact that ChatGPT exists. Students and teens are looking to cut corners by having ChatGPT write their homework for them. Why do the summer reading when ChatGPT can produce a thousand word essay breaking down Of Mice and Men? Most schools are investing in AI detectors, but they are not perfect and there will always be a need to get the newest detectors to compete with the ever-evolving ChatGPT.
These examples show that ChatGPT can indeed be used for both positive and negative purposes. It will take a collected human effort to monitor who is utilizing this software and what can be done to identify the difference between the work of humans and the work of chatbots like ChatGPT.