ChatGPT — Friend or Foe?
Yesterday, I read an article about how educators are going to up their game to prevent plagiarism via the use of ChatGPT. To me, this is the right answer to the wrong question.
Those who follow my musings on Medium will know that I have been saying that knowledge is fast becoming a commodity. The advent of ChatGPT has made this reality.
In the past, what separated talent was how knowledge was used — the average know it, the good apply it, and the excellent use it. With ChatGPT commoditizing knowledge, talent is now determined by who can create new knowledge. In this new paradigm, the average will know how to apply knowledge, the good will know how to use the knowledge, and the excellent will now be the ones who can create new knowledge.
Hence, educators who seek to limit the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) by changing their questions are, in my opinion, solving the wrong problem. Technology and human endeavor should no longer be viewed as separate — this is the tyranny of the ‘or’. Instead, I believe that society would benefit from the genius of the ‘and’ by embracing AI and leveraging it to create a better future. In my opinion, educators should focus on teaching students how to use AI to augment human creativity and creation, instead of limiting its use.
In short, whether we see AI as friend or foe will determine our future.
