AI technology has already taken some people’s jobs and could take more. Do I need to worry about AI taking my job?
I fed some of my readers’ questions into ChatGPT back in January and asked the bot to reply to three questions “in the style of sex-advice columnist Dan Savage.” Could ChatGPT give better advice pretending to be me than I could give actually being me? Most readers agreed that I gave better advice in that column (“The UnDanny Valley“), so I get to keep my job.
But AI technology continues to evolve and “improve” — it’s improving so rapidly that some people are worried it may get so good it ultimately destroys humanity — and reading the headlines I thought I should check-in with ChatGPT again. So, I fed the first letter from this week’s column into ChatGPT and asked it to respond in the style of Dan Savage. You can read [Full Legal Name Redacted]’s question and my response here.
And now here is ChatGPT’s response to FLNR…
Dear [Full Legal Name Redacted],
First of all, I want to...