The progress of AI has long been lurking around the edges of the mainstream, but the release of the wildly popular ChatGPT has propelled it into the limelight. Esther O’Moore Donohoe decides to find out just what it can do .stands for artificial intelligence and is a technology that simulates the processes of human intelligence like decision making and problem solving.
ChatGPT is an AI-powered chat bot. It can create sentences as if written by a human, by searching the internet for written material and reproducing grammatically and tone correct copy, according to instructions given. It automates the writing process and creates text quickly, which in effect, lowers the cost of production. Does this terrify me, a writer who makes her living from writing? Mm-hmm . I decided I needed to learn first-hand about this digital challenger to my livelihood.
a shout out to my breakfast of champions, Crunchy Nut Cornflakes, for fuelling me during late-night writing sessions.”Who amongst us hasn’t given an Oscar speech in the shower? I’d happily accept a Best Original Score Oscar with this. I’d just need an AI to write the score first.The greatest utility of a writing AI is creating copy for things like user manuals, products, operating instructions and firing off transactional texts and emails, quickly.