Some are calling it a game changer, a hidden gem, or even a free personal assistant. ChatGPT is one of the fasted adopted technologies, and I, like many, started hearing about it several weeks ago as it hit its millionth user in just six days.
The smart AI technology generates well-written responses to your prompts. Its text-based replies mimic natural dialogue rather than generating a list of links as in a google search.
I wanted to test this new technology on something I have been working on. Will ChatGPT help me find a tagline for my Division of Communication? My academic division has departments in film, theatre, communication, and journalism, and finding a tagline has been a challenge.
Within a few moments and several prompts, ChatGPT produced 14 taglines. Some were very good, but I noticed that my prompts were a big part of the success or failure of the tagline. For example, my prompts that were limited to communication included taglines that focused on words ignoring visual or nonverbal communication.
But to my surprise, the AI was able to adapt once I included all the department names. So will AI take over our jobs? No, not entirely. But I believe that it could help generate content efficiently, and that’s invaluable in our fast-paced environments.
But ChatGPT can do so much more than my little experiment.
It can develop content for marketers, simplify complex science terms for premed students, and write code to increase web traffic. But it also might be a tool that disrupts industries and make plagiarism easier than ever.
With all the users added daily, ChatGPT is here to stay. So, it’s important for educators like me to understand and address its’ strengths and weaknesses even as soon as 2023.
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