Chat GPT Can Produce These Essays, Right?

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The same principle applies to different industries. You see this debate playing out in music. The streaming services where a lot of us listen to most of our music are very kind of algorithmically driven and they tend to incentivize musicians to create songs and tracks that fit a certain formula because they know that formula works right. And whatever the trend is now gets absolutely kind of amplified and you don't want to actually go against it.

When OpenAI launched its conversational chatbot this past November, author Ian Leslie was struck by the humanness of the computer's dialogue. Then he realized that he had it exactly backward: In an age that favors the formulaic and generic to the ambiguous, complex, and unexpected, it's no wonder that computers can sound eerily lifelike. Leslie tells EconTalk host Russ Roberts that we should worry less about the lifelike nature of AI and worry more that human beings are being more robotic and predictable. Leslie bolsters his argument with evidence from music and movies. The conversation includes a discussion of the role of education in wearing down the mind's rougher, but more interesting and more authentic, edges as well as how we might strive to be more human in the age of AI.