Technology and Accountability
Rhyming words?
No…
An existing reality called TECHNOLOGY must have an entente cordiale with social and moral obligation called ACCOUNTABILITY. In simple words, both must have a concurrent relationship for the world to remain sane, normal, and safe.RememberJurassic Park where due to a twist in programming the dinosaurs went insane and murderous, or Terminator which sets the good robot against the bad? The bad is powerful and dynamic and does not stop till everything is destroyed as per its taste and requirement.In the 21st Century, we can boast of being at the pinnacle of technological advancement, and once in a way a Super Chat Bot like ChatGPT can gladden our hearts and make us feel proud of the advancement the human race has made, in addition to making our lives simpler, easier, and involving lesser application of brain and sensory faculties.
Want to pass an Exam? Use ChatGPT! (Leave it to patients to trust the next Doctor they visit!) Want to build a Website? ChatGPT will do a good job! (People will appreciate your talent in other fields!) Want to build a Resume and a Cover letter along with preparing for a Job Interview? ChatGPT at your service! (The employer knows very well whom you are taking assistance from!)
Want to solve a Mathematical problem or understand a complex topic? ChatGPT ahoy! It will break down the problem into small bits and not rest till you understand it all! (Akin to chewing food properly so that it gets digested easily..that’s what learning has come to!).
Can’t manage your Relationship? Chat GPT is your agony aunt, and know what? It can create musical notes too! In a musical parody, you will be united with your beloved. (Didn’t you know -Life is all song and dance!).
Want an Essay or any type of content to be written? Chat GPT is the vocabulary guru that can assist you in multiple languages! (Novels, Scripts, Poems, Articles, Books, stories, and love letters will
hereafter be bot-scripted!).
Programmers, rejoice! Chat GPT is here to write, debug and explain codes! (The same Chat GPT might be coming for your job, watch out!)
Lonely? Chat GPT will give you good company by providing emotional succour and by cracking original jokes! (Who cares about neighbours,family, friends, and Kapil Sharma?!!)
DON’T SAY YOU WERE NOT WARNED!
Imagine your neighbour’s son who cheated using Chat GPT in the exam to pass, landed a plum job, but was kicked out as the employer caught him using ChatGPT for a presentation, and realized that using Chat GPT was much more economical.The poor child resorted to Phishing and Scamming along with creating Malware using the same Chat GPT to earn a living. On the side, he royally courted a girl on Tinder who thought he was a Shakespeare of sorts, but dumped him when she got to know that he actually used Chat GPT to write love odes for her!.
Phew! What a journey!!!
Sounds funny? I bet you’d be worried about your own child right now! How is the scenario? Fantastical? Or Imminent? Think about it… Of course, without the aid of Chat GPT!
It’s all in the family!
Meet Chat GPT’s younger brothers, sisters, and cousins – Google’s Bard, DeepMind’s Sparrow, Baidu’s Earnie (Beware – it is Chinese!) Meta’s Blender Bot.
Don’t these names sound illustrious and resplendent?
!Looking at the rate at which unguarded AI is multiplying, it’s no surprise that Elon Musk and others signed an open letter to companies to urge them to pause big AI development till a good number of safeguards can be built. After all, you don’t let a Rottweiler out on the road. You rein it in till it is trained, civilized, and fit to be out in the open amongst people who do not realize the danger that might be coming towards them.
Teachers, Teachers!!!
As soon as ChatGPT cracked the Wharton MBA Exam, US Medical licensing Exam and other such, accomplished teachers and Educators decided that an immediate clamp down on such possibilities is required. After all, cheating and plagiarism don’t go down well with teachers! In a jiffy, Open AI launched a web-based program called "AI Text Classifier" to tackle that issue. Any type of text over 1000 characters can be run through a test to determine if it is AI-generated or mind generated. However, it is not fool-proof and gives. results like "very unlikely," "unlikely," "unclear if it is," "possibly," or "likely". Smart students can modify, tweak, and change. their content in such a manner as to avoid detection! Teachers, first you train students to become super smart, then you rue the day you did it! Why is it so hard to please you?
Ironically, another such program that aims at differentiating AIgenerated content from human-generated one is being developed by a student, and is called GPTZero!
Teachers, didn’t this news warm the cockles of your hearts!! However, it remains to be seen who turns out smarter… GPT4 that is making waves right now and GPT5 that is in the making, or AI Text Classifier or GPTZero which are combating them!.
An interesting movie plot is laid out open for anyone who wants to explore it!
On one hand, ChatGPT is proving to be extremely useful in teaching languages and aiding the visually impaired. On the other hand, people are using it for Phishing, Scamming, and creating Malware.
Alternately, it is being used for comic relief by tricking it into convincing people about the advantages of eating glass and explaining in biblical verses how to remove a peanut butter sandwich from a VCR!
Looking at ChatGPT’s popularity, Google’s Bard felt performance pressure, and performed badly in a business demonstration, which led to a drop in Google’s stock!
So much for chatbots developing human emotions and reacting like jittery humans!
Finally, a joke created by ME (lest you think I am using ChatGPT! BTW this article is deliberately 1000 characters plus, and can be run through AI Text Classifier!!)
The joke is –
Q. What does ChatGPT eat?
Ans. Your job!!!!!
(Writer is Delhi based)
Nipun Dutta





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