Why ChatGPT can't write for you | David Savill | TEDxUniversityofSalford
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- Опубліковано 11 тра 2024
- David shows us the importance of reading and writing in developing and maintaining society, democracy, critical thinking skills, and humanity. With the rise of artificial intelligence, he shares the importance of human intelligence and the three questions AI cannot answer for us.
David Savill is a novelist and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at The University of Salford. He is the author of They Are Trying To Break Your Heart (Bloomsbury), winner of the French First Novel prize for the best English Language debut novel, and nominated for the Desmond Elliot prize. He is a former BBC Current Affairs producer and journalist who made investigative programmes for Panorama, This World, Real Story and Radio 4’s Crossing Continents. At the University of Salford, he founded the world’s first Creative Writing Multidiscipline degree, guiding students through courses in writing, media production and podcasting to become the future of creative industries. His current research explores what we can learn about politics and the health of democracy through storytelling.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
Thank you so much. As a Brazilian son of an illiterate agricultural worker. I’m really touched by these words.
Qual o nome do seu pai?
this words?
@@JacobMLeBlancThanks for the comment. I’m not the best English writer.
@@bjzarro Thanks for your interest. My father’s name is Antonio. He is a very, very poor man, that lives in a small State of Brazil called Acre. In the Brazil’s Amazon rainforest region in the far north.
ChatGPT is like salt. You use salt to improve the quality of food. Not eat like food :)
ChatGPT is like a pantry of ingredients, crafting conversations with its diverse elements, akin to creating dishes. :)
Good way to put it
Very true
Give it time. Like all technology, it will develop. What it will look like in 5 years is another story.
@@emiliog.4432 I think you missed the point of the talk
The Brazilian teacher is right about the humanization of education. This content is valuable
It's just like having a good writer's assistant.
I mean, I'm the one still taking the time to push the buttons and stuff.
😂 I think having a writing assistant can be okay. In my talk, I'm more concerned with the specific field of literacy education and how large language model generative AI challenges what we think literacy to be. I think the things to be wary of are more acute in the phases of language acquisition, learning to write, and learning to read. Thanks for watching and thinking!
7:48 this statement confuses product with process, destination with journey
8:19 to 8:37 But is the process too passive? As we get quick answers and make quick art, are we accessing the deep reflection and critical awareness that makes us feel a sense of our own agency, of who we are, of who we want to become?
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Thank you for this! Great reminder and beautiful explanation ✨
Thank you for watching!
Explained well
Thanks
Beautiful
Thank you for sharing your perspectives on the role of AI in the field of writing. It’s important to have these conversations as they shape our understanding and expectations of technological advancements. I appreciate your caution and respect the concerns you've raised about AI replacing human writers. It is indeed crucial to critically assess how these technologies are integrated into our creative processes.
However, I would like to offer a different angle on the capabilities and possibilities that AI brings to both creativity and productivity. AI, especially in text generation, isn't about supplanting human creativity but augmenting it. Tools like AI-driven text generators are designed to work in collaboration with human input. They can serve as co-creators, helping to overcome writer's block, generate ideas, or even provide draft texts that can be refined by human writers. This symbiosis can enhance creativity rather than diminish it.
Moreover, understanding the underlying mechanisms of AI can demystify many concerns. Text-generating AIs are trained on vast amounts of text data and generate content based on patterns and associations they have learned. They do not possess understanding or consciousness but are rather tools that we can steer and control. This distinction is crucial-it’s not about AI writing autonomously but how we humans choose to use these tools to extend our own capabilities.
In embracing AI, we are not discarding the unique qualities of human judgment, empathy, and context-awareness that are integral to impactful writing. Instead, we are enabling ourselves to leverage technology to achieve more, often in less time and with greater efficiency. By integrating AI into our creative workflows, we can explore new forms of expression and reach heights that might be challenging to achieve alone.
As we continue this journey with AI, it’s essential to ensure these technologies are implemented in ways that respect and enhance human values and capabilities. Let's view AI as a partner in our creative endeavors rather than a replacement. This approach might open up incredible opportunities for innovation and expression in the realm of writing and beyond.
Hi Matt. Thankyou for this thoughtful response. I'm really glad you watched the talk and it has started a productive conversation. Despite the points made in my talk, I agree with you about the creative possibilities LLM AI can provide writers. I've had fun using it myself. Personally speaking, I can't imagine wanting to integrate AI into my process as a novelist (beyond its use as a research tool), but creative writers are already using AI to innovate and experiment. I don't think there is anything wrong with this. You make really good, nuanced points about how LLM AI can be used and I love the words you use - respect, partnership, understanding. This is very inspiring. I should point out that TED added the provocative subtitle: "Why AI can't write for you" to my talk. The only title I offered was '3 questions AI can't answer". Wearing my teacher hat, I would qualify TED's subtitle and suggest: "why we should be cautious about learning to read and write using AI". The creative uses of AI that you suggest presuppose a user who possesses a high degree of literacy and, hopefully, critical thinking. How do our society's produce people with high degrees of literacy and critical thinking? Will LLM AI help or hinder the progress of individuals to become highly literate and think critically? I don't have the answers to these questions, but from the point of view of a teacher, my purpose was to raise the question. My central concern is how the development of cognitive functions and consciousness in the phases of language acquisition and literacy will be effected by the use of LLM AI in classrooms. Will we remain motivated to acquire language, reading and writing skills, in the way we do today? (some would argue ,we do not already pay enough attention to developing these skills, or do it will enough); or will we find ways of using LLM AI to enable individuals (especially in the crucial phases of childhood), to become more literate, and better, critical thinkers? (I think there will doubtless be uses, but they need to be refined and strategic). My experience with undergraduate students suggests that even at the later stages of literacy development, there is still a lot that can be done to develop higher levels of literacy and critical thinking. Indeed, I feel literacy is a lifelong journey none of us complete. Unfortunately, not all - and I think most - of the ways in which LLM AI is currently being used by students, isn't contributing towards the development of their literacy and critical thinking. There are, for sure, positive uses, and I would love to have had more time to explore both negative and positive uses in greater detail - but with this talk, I ventured to suggest concerns I was hearing among my community of educators, but hadn't seen fully articulated at the time. Thanks again for your brilliant and thoughtful response.
I only use it to reword my thoughts so I don't sound like a moron when sending people messages
stg i thought i was da only one😭😭
intoxication of anything may be bad...but of Course GTP frames are good for day to day uses...books and greater works must be in original writing ❤
This was so enlightening 😂. Go david!!!
lewis mcnulty
I love how ChatGPT helps me to organise my thoughts & chaotic ADHD brain ❤
Also, it can save a lot of time formatting a document.
SAME
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Hayalhanem👍
Very very nice ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ I love it ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😂😂🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😊😊
That's why magas, scp Wiki / the wanderers library, Reddit stories narrated is so popular and wonderful and people who throw in AI instantly stick out and even if its almost even u can tell something is missing. It's soul baby it's that writing Jazz. It's why people build a masterpiece then go on to sell it or present and do it again! Oh yeah soul
As An ADHD, GPT Is The Only One That Can Cope And Organize The Flow Of Information Exploding From The Overthinking And My Hyperactive, Restless Brain.
Thanks for watching my talk! I think what you describe is a brilliant use of ChatGPT. Neuro-diversity is an important point, and partly why I raised the example of my dyslexic daughter. It would be fascinating to see a talk on what you describe.
Thanks for putting an input to this - AI is seemingly seen as the greatest thing in our times, and it is impressive but people forget humans made it.
naitik what the bludclart
naitik i love you so much it gets me errect🎉🎉🎉
Think
GPT 5: Are you sure about that 🤨
GPT 5: Hold my beer.
there s really a high risk that our society will not develop as much as before with AI. Just because there is the risk that we donot develop our own solutions anymore which is the base of going new ways.
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That's Mike Henry with a British accent.
School is gonna be so much fun in the future. Only the fun, healthy things for developing our brains and puzzles, and no longer the horrible old stuff everyone hates, but we lacked the computer or external memory for
Amanuensis --> Gutenberg --> ChatGPT!
ChatGPT make work so easy and no buddy want to work by self becouse everyone fine short cut and ChatGPT destroy thought process or human. it's not good for our future. I'm a student and my many friend using ChatGPT to done our PPT and forget main motive to making PPT it only want to work done without thinking why this work i have to be done. It really destroy our future
I wrote the talk. I'm so encouraged to see that you recognize how learning is about the process and not the product. We have a great future as long as people like you continue to think that way! ☺
I use chat gpt to learn english he is a good for learner
Humans can get any answers from vedhas ,sanskrit text,LANGUAGE OF AI IS SANSKRIT
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Don't explain the reasons AI can't read or write. You're just telling the Skynet people what problems to solve and bringing us closer to the terminators.
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ChatGPT laughing listening to this video right now
Please write me a witty response to this video , please make it snarky but not mean . Thank you
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Anything that is not acceted by wokeness. Fffrt
I don’t even have to watch this video to know that AI will be able to do everything this guy claims it can’t within five years
The saddest part is that you not only admit wilful ignorance, but that if you had watched it to its conclusion you would have heard what the questions were and why they can’t be answered by a machine. It’s comments like yours that make me understand how the world you describe would come about, not by those who seek to do harm, not by those who fight it, but by those who are apathetic and lazy.
@@jenniferelyse5134 my best friend and, probably, the smartest person I’ll ever know was massively dyslexic. He would speak to me what he was going to write and it was sheer brilliance. He would lock himself away and write for days and produce unreadable nonsense. Were he still alive, voice to text and AI would allow him to share his towering genius with the world
I, on the other hand, love writing and would never want words that weren’t mine to be my sword and shield. Making art with computers, however, is simply an exercise in frustration. For me, AI image generation is an absolute boon
For those who wish to scour their soul: write, draw, paint, or dance. For those who wish a product that is kind to their precious time on this planet: AI
ChatGPT can write for many people. Writing isn’t the only way to know yourself
@@ScorpioIsland Hello both. I wrote the talk. Thankyou for watching. This is an interesting conversation because you both make points I made in the talk itself. In the middle section, I talk about my profoundly dyslexic daughter, and the dangers of being a literacy snob - so I agree with you entirely. The subtitle 'Why ChatGPT can't write for you' was added by TED, and is not a claim I make in the talk, although it is apposite if we consider writing as analogous with a certain kind of thinking. My concern is about literacy in education - which is my field. The process of learning to read and write develops cognitive skills beyond the product of reading and writing. Each generation learns in different ways, and their cognitive skills are shaped in different ways. We simply don't know how those cognitive skills will be effected if we allow LLM AI to become a part of the literacy process. There could be benefits, but there could also be dangers. The second point is historical - literacy as we know it was one of the major factors in the development of advanced economies, and democracy in particular. This is, in part, because one of the cognitive effects of literacy is advanced critical thinking. The purpose of my talk is to raise questions and create a conversation about how changes in the process of language acquisition, reading and writing, will effect the connection between self and society, and the critical thinking ability of humans. No-one knows the answers to these questions, but the first step is to ask them.
Another academic obviously afraid he'll be loosing his job, with a misunderstanding about what AI is and how it will help us make the future whatever we want. Sheesh creativity isn't going away! It's just changing for the better! So how about helping instead of being a frightened obstacle?
I don't disagree. There are some great creative uses of AI. I'm already attending conferences exploring them. The concern I express in my talk is about what we might lose if we cede too much control to AI in the specific field of literacy education, and how large language models challenge what we mean by the literate citizen. There are definite opportunities in large language model generative AI systems, but drawbacks to be aware of too. Personally speaking, I can say I'm not worried about losing my job! 😂
@@persimian4997 Hello thank you for the very thoughtful response. LLMs are giving us an amazing microscope into language (human and non-human), and they force us to examine questions like what literacy is and what use it actually has. Literacy as it's defined now might not be as important as it has been in the past. These new tools may give us the *choice* of literacy (or not), which IMO is an incredible superpower. Powerful tools require *respect*, not fear. Instead of focusing on the few possible harms, why not focus on the myriad of ways new forms of literacy can be helpful?
As for jobs -- if literacy as we know it is going away, then any literacy education jobs (like yours) will also go away. No worries -- there will probably be something else to do. :)
Cheers
Talk about having no clue. Surely you don’t think that we should get rid of calculators. What ChatGPT signifies is that certain skill like writing is a less value than before. Just like mental arithmetic. It’s human nature to not want to adjust to change. That type of thinking argues for return of horse and buggies
Interesting point of view! In the talk, I praise the positive uses of AI and embrace change. I think it isn't contradictory to also suggest we closely guard the cognitive benefits of learning to read and write well.
@@persimian4997 there's many other cognitive benefits like learning to reason or do math. one can wish to be accomplished in everything, even playing the accordion but there are trade offs from time and energy. and surely, i hope he's not dictating what is best for everyone, like 1984. what he stated is more of a reflection of his bias without consideration for the opportunity cost. what he hoped to say was profound was not.
Don't mumble so much.