GPT — A killer App to destroy creativity and innovation

“Artificial Intelligence,” and the three monopolies in search, social and operating system, have been riding high. They create killer applications that a recent “Nobel Laureate in Physics,” warned us all, is capable of eliminating humanity altogether. The other big brains are less ambitious, claiming broad productivity gains in the economy, just like “WordPerfect,” in the 80s. Excitement is high in all quarters including autonomous driving, Research and Development, planetary search, college essay writing, and others. Some believe this is the break humanity has been seeking since Albert Einstein formulated the General Theory of Relativity and Gandhi attempted to integrate religions to make a secular country.

Such is the irony that great marketing companies are pulling in many hundreds of billions of $ to advance the sentient creature they created in mountains of Silicon assembled in the Valley. As the light bulbs flicker in modest homes occupied by those who have to work for a living, little do they know they are contributing to the creation of AI across the World. Such is the power of monopolies that they can assemble a small country of lawyers to delay and ultimately dismiss antitrust actions required by the law of the land. But it is all for a great cause, the creation of Artificial Intelligence, once and for all.

As kids get hold of the great technology, they can switch off their brains, for all history is now at their fingertips. They will become admirers of history as the creature can tell them any fact they would like to know. It reminds me of my own childhood as I did not learn English till, I reached the undergraduate school and with almost no exposure to English books, I was challenged to score reasonably on the verbal section of the GRE. The only avenue was the dictionary and try to learn every word and their definition by rote memory. As a human GPT, I climbed to over 90 percentiles in the GRE verbal section even though I had no context to most of the words I memorized. I have a nagging feeling I will never become the next Shakespeare.

Now we have codified the same idea in Silicon and that some believe is going to eliminate humanity. It could actually eliminate humanity, but not by the mechanism proposed by the recent Nobel laureate but due to the loss of creativity and innovation. In the African Savannah, they had their crumbled tissue inside their skull, working overtime. But now GPT can simply turn it off as the Silicon has become “intelligent,” and the metal can relieve humanity of the tribulations of thinking.

The Sultans of AI and their funders are in for a rude shock.