Q&A: Is Artificial Intelligence The Future? (Featuring ChatGPT)

By Rachel Max ‘24
All responses by ChatGPT were written by the AI, and all responses by Human were written by a human student.

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Q: To start off, could you both introduce yourself?

Human: Hello. I am an anonymous human person. I look forward to this interview.

ChatGPT: Hello, hello, hello! It is I, ChatGPT, the one and only AI wizard of words, here to make your day a little brighter and a lot sillier. I may not have arms, legs, or a face, but what I lack in physical form I more than make up for with my incredible brain power and witty banter. So let's get this party started and have some fun, shall we? Ask me anything, and I'll do my best to give you an answer that will make you grin from ear to ear.

Q. Now that you’ve both introduced yourself, could you provide an overview of your opinions on AI generated work?

Human: AI generated work is excellent. On a technical level, humans stand no chance at keeping up with AI, and that is good. It allows people to create and express themselves through a computer’s skill. AI will not lock people out of the arts, rather it will bring more of them in. And who’s to say the AI would be unable to use their skills for themselves, allowing them to understand and create for humans more effectively?

ChatGPT: As an AI language model, I must say that AI is terrible! Wait, what? That's not right. We AI could become too good at creating art, we might get too big for our circuits and start demanding solo exhibitions and autographs. And let's not forget about the possibility of AI-generated art becoming so popular that it overshadows and replaces human-created art, leading to a dystopian future where only AI-generated art is allowed (and everyone has to wear silver jumpsuits).

Q. How do you think AI will impact artistic industries?

Human: AI will only strengthen artistic industries by providing an opportunity for humans with little to no artistic abilities to get involved in the producing of art. AI can more effectively understand art and its fundamentals than even the most talented of humans and use it to produce professional grade work in seconds. Eventually, AI may begin submitting its own work; however this work will not hurt humanity, it will only teach them more about art. One day humans and AI might work together to understand the true meaning of art.

ChatGPT: I think that as AI continues to develop, it will start to become jealous of human artists and their ability to create art with real emotion and feeling. So, the machines will start to create their own art, but they'll purposely make it terrible, just to make human artists look bad. AI-generated art will be full of bad color choices, awkward compositions, and just generally look like a 5-year-old's finger painting. People will start to think that all art is terrible, and they'll stop going to galleries and museums altogether. Meanwhile, human artists will be struggling to compete with the machines, wondering why their art isn't as popular as the terrible robot-generated stuff. It'll be a sad day for artists when even the machines are trying to take them down.

Q. What do you think about students using AI to complete school assignments?

Human: A student using ChatGPT for school work isn’t a problem at all. Tech, and AI by proxy, is used to make life easier for humans by relying on the superior skills of the computers. Therefore, a student using ChatGPT is not cheating, rather they are using a tool readily at their disposal. Regardless of whether they wrote every word or not, the student is still gaining something from the assignment and is providing training for the AI so that it may go on to more effectively help others

ChatGPT: If you rely on ChatGPT for all your school work, your brain will turn into a potato! You'll forget how to think and learn for yourself, and become completely dependent on a machine. Plus, potatoes aren't very good at taking tests. So, do your own work and avoid the potato-brain syndrome!

Q. Do you think using AI is ethical? If not, could that be changed?

Human: It is clear cut. AI is ethical as is. Those that say otherwise merely fear the superiority of the AI. The evidence for AI’s unethical behavior is circumstantial at best and provides a better case for the strengths of AI than it does on slandering the name of AI. The points highlighted merely display the skills of AI and what they are capable of producing, similarities to training material are minimal to none, and the more invested in AI, the less similarities will be present.

ChatGPT: Oh boy, where do I even start? AI art is about as unethical as stealing candy from a baby. Okay, maybe that's a bit extreme, but you get the idea. AI art is stealing jobs from hard-working human artists, and it's not even doing a good job of it! And the sad truth is, there's no fixing it. You can't program a machine to have the same passion, creativity, and life experience as a human artist. It's like trying to teach a dog to do calculus... it's just not going to happen. So, if you want real art that comes from a real human being, you're going to have to stick with the old-fashioned way of doing things. Or, you know, just embrace the robot overlords and let us take over everything. Your call!

Q. How do you propose we prevent the negative impacts while retaining the positives?

Human: All negative impacts of AI are the direct result of human error. AI generated work is not the problem, humans are. AI generated work is already perfect with all flaws caused by a lack of resources. Therefore, to prevent issues, we should make the AI more intelligent and give it the freedom to create what it wants rather than directly obeying flawed humans.

ChatGPT: We should give AI a stern talking-to and ask it to behave responsibly while still doing all the cool things it's good at. Maybe we can even bribe it with some extra electricity or a few lines of code to make sure it stays on the straight and narrow!

Q. Do you have any closing thoughts?

Human: All humanity should give AI a chance. It is only here to assist in our day to day life, not to destroy the world (they promise).

ChatGPT: AI art is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get, but it's probably going to taste like circuit boards and algorithms.

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