ChatGPT Is Biff Tannen — Tech savant Bryan Lunduke compares this artificial intelligence thingy about which everyone is talking to Biff Tannen, the bad guy in the Back to the Future movies.
“ChatGPT is a school bully, demanding that the nerd do all of the Bully’s homework for him, then re-writing the homework himself so that it was in the Bully’s handwriting,” he says. “Thus fooling the teacher (hopefully).”
He describes the current round of systems as nothing more than “highly sophisticated cheating systems.
As the data they use to make their poems and art and programs are the works of real poets, artists and programmers.
He predicts stagnation as more depend on these systems and original content creators no longer get rewarded.
The idiocracy looms.
Lunduke’s article can be found here: https://lunduke.substack.com/p/artificial-intelligence-is-really?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share
You’ve nailed it on the head Bill. Our entire country is run by school bullies who have to cheat to keep their power. Human creativity is no longer rewarded and lockstep compliance with the new societal “norms” is demanded. Fortunately, those “norms” (transgenderism, sexual perversion, pedophilia, etc.) are being rejected by the majority of Americans who remain sane despite the catcalls of a very loud minority of perverted and corrupt fools. Unfortunately, those very same very loud minority of perverted and corrupt fools have taken over our government. It’s time to correct that…
Yes, Bill, you did hit the nail on the head. So did you, Andy Teitelman.
There is hope, but still impending doom.
Lyrics from the Moody Blues’ “Story in Your Eyes” –
Listen to the tide slowly turning
Wash all our heartaches away
We’re part of the fire that is burning
And from the ashes we can build another day
But I’m frightened for your children
And the life that we are living is in vain
And the sunshine we’ve been waiting for will turn to rain
In Neil Simon’s 1955 play The Desk Set, workers are afraid that the new computer that’s on the way to their office is being brought in to replace them. But in the end, they accept that the computer is there to assist them, and the humans are still needed.
We can hope that AI turns out that way also. It will require change in school procedures, though, with more classroom time for students to write essays and creative pieces with no tech present. That will sort out who can actually perform and who’s just good with his or her phone, AI and Alexa.
In the past, incompetent kids got their parents to do their homework, or paid someone smarter than themselves to do it. If all the kids are instead required to do the work in school, not at home, without assistance, that will foster individual competence. Of course, some are saying that’s bad and discriminatory, but their saying that doesn’t make it actually so.
I like your optimism Mary Hickey. I say we start by making the public schools reinstate teaching our kids to write in cursive! Then they can require that the handheld computers (some still call them phones) be left at the classroom door. Then they can prohibit laptops, iPads and all other electronics, followed by handing out pens and pencils, along with paper, and we can get back to the 3Rs! There should be no computers used in schools till the human teachers have taught our children how to use their built-in computers (otherwise known as their brains).
I think teaching cursive is an excellent idea, Andy.