The Rise Of Chat-GPT: Over-reliance on AI

 While humanity has advanced in technology by leaps and bounds, it has - midway - created a potential to lose its touch in being over-reliant on technology, specifically Artificial Intelligence (AI), by virtue of profiteering.

However, this dire strait has not been born by itself but owes its existence to several man-made factors. Among many factors causing over-reliance on technology, lust for money - thanks to the industrial revolution, which has formed the world a cage entangled with capitalism - is a driving force, where the profiteering, at the expense of ethical and moral values, knows no bounds. Resultantly, the burgeoning use of AI-generated websites like Chat-GPT by students, faculty members, in short people from all walks of life, has taken a whole new turn in terms of over-reliance. As a consequence of which, there stands a fair chance of erosion of human thinking faculties; namely, the human brain is evolving; our ancestors had larger brains than us, size-wise; intelligence became increasingly collective some 100 years ago when humans breached the threshold of population and interacted with each other. But that human-to-human interaction, socialization of synaptic thought, is being replaced by human-to-AI interaction, taking into account the use of human-sounding language - even sentience - by the AI. But it is a mirage. Although Chat-GPT can write superfluous prose but can not be a substitute for human genuine comprehension, nurtured over the years in a web of social practices. Another closely related phenomenon is ‘binging’ not ‘googling’.

According to some observers, hinting at the over-hyped Chat-GPT among the masses, leaning on such tools to answer every question from existence to death has alarmingly inimical effects on human critical faculties, having been flabbergasted by the so-called acumen of Chat-GPT. This brings about the fact that progress is not necessarily ethical; namely, humanity advanced via agriculture, so did slavery hold roots; as the industrial revolution brought humanity to the heights of advancements, so did evils like capitalism devoured the world.

Hence, the danger is not treating machines like humans but humans being treated like machines.

Author: Zubair Siddiqui