Renowned venture capitalist Paul Graham stated that if OpenAI’s chatGPT saves people from writing, it can also keep them from “having the ideas that writing engenders.”
What Happened: Sharing observations with his 1.6 million Twitter followers, Graham said chatGPT screenshots suddenly started crowding his social media feed a month ago. “They’ve become a media type, like jpgs and videos.”
He then tweeted that AI could essentially keep people generating ideas that manual writing kindles. “Even bad writing must force the writer to think. In a confused way, probably, but more than he’d have thought if he didn’t try to write.”
If AI saves people from having to write, it will also save them from having the ideas that writing engenders.
— Paul Graham (@paulg) January 5, 2023
Why It’s Important: Graham also took a dig at Microsoft Corporation’s decision to leverage chatGPT in launching a version of its search engine Bing and take on Google. He said this latest development is more surprising than a “100-year pandemic or a European war.”
I thought we were done with big surprises for a while, but Bing offering serious competition to Google would be even more surprising than a 100-year pandemic or a European war.
— Paul Graham (@paulg) January 5, 2023
The new Bing version will reportedly be launched by March this year.
ChatGPT was made available for free testing in November last year. Microsoft backed the company with $1 billion in funding.
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