ChatGPT emerged in late 2022 from the company OpenAI. Millions of people around the world have started using ChatGPT due to its seemingly impeccable responses to any question and ease of use.

According to NBC News in December 2022, it was originally uncensored and unfiltered, meaning that ChatGPT would give directions to build explosives when summoned to do so. However, since then, several iterations of the service have been created as updates to censor and guide the technology into giving more appropriate answers and denying inappropriate requests.

I started exploring ChatGPT’s functions and responses in early 2023 due to hype in the media. I have had a pure fun time engaging with this technological tool by forming conversations, debating it, correcting it, allowing it to correct me, deceiving it into answering my extremely strange questions, evoking my curiosity and evading writer’s block. Likewise, ChatGPT’s slogan is rather modest and appropriate which says that users can “get instant answers, find creative inspiration, and learn something.”

ChatGPT is an incredible tool, but only if people learn to use it as a tool and not as an answer for everything. ChatGPT is a large-language model because it is trained on data prior to September 2021 that gives the most probable following word to any pending statement. However, the most intriguing part is the speed at which ChatGPT processes the information, and not necessarily the information itself.

As long as ChatGPT users fact-check everything that comes out of the technology, people should be satisfied with the responsible and ethical use of the technology. ChatGPT can do some things extremely well, while it has problems with other activities. For example, ChatGPT can proofread, suggest and edit sentences, paragraphs and articles that are fed into it. ChatGPT can summarize entire scholarly articles. When asked to find the confounding variables of a scholarly article, it succeeded and was correct. ChatGPT can even write formal emails and letters for a person. ChatGPT is fantastic at conveying fictional stories, writing poetry and refining crossword puzzle clues for accuracy.

As long as a person fact-checks everything to ascertain the information’s accuracy, nothing could go wrong. I am absolutely not convinced that ChatGPT is going to steal people’s jobs, but people’s jobs may very well become easier by using ChatGPT. 

Well, there is one job that may lose some duties and responsibilities due to ChatGPT, such as a few secretarial duties like typing formal emails to correspondents, but that is about it. ChatGPT is also awesome at giving advice on how to proceed in various life activities whether it is school-related, work-related or lifestyle-related. For instance, if students are confused by a professor’s convoluted college assignment directions, ChatGPT will help to refine the directions into making it more comprehensible, so that students actually understand the content the professor wants to be submitted.

When I ask about knowledge which is sparse on the internet, and there is a lack of data on the topic, ChatGPT is definitely not hesitant or shy to make stuff up. It is definitely cocky and overconfident about the information. This sheer overconfidence in the chatbot may be the most problematic downfall of the tool. I have corrected it, and it apologized with positive regard, which feels great. 

Unlike using a Google search, every inquiry with ChatGPT should be thought of as a full detailed back-and-forth conversation that refines the answers a user seeks. ChatGPT helps people to improve their writing, and people can actively learn from using ChatGPT by fact-checking and reading articles. ChatGPT is definitely the best work companion for any academic or learned person.

ChatGPT reminds me of how naive most of the world was when Google search was first launched approximately 20 years ago, and Google became most people’s search of choice because it offered relevancy. ChatGPT is rather promising in the exact same manner, but it is far more propitious than Google’s search with its potential.

If a Ph.D. candidate can finish a dissertation in two years instead of six years because of extensive ChatGPT usage, there ought to be no harm in doing so, as long as all the references are correct. Human processes can very well be expedited with the appropriate and ethical usage of ChatGPT.

I think of ChatGPT as a tool that helps to expedite all the mundane activities that humans are expected to do, such as data entry, customer support, appointment scheduling, research and information gathering, report generation, content idea generation, language translation, proofreading and editing, grammar checks, giving dictionary and thesaurus help, writing snippets of code to use in a full program, providing research help, summarizing information, giving advice how to proceed, organization of thoughts, data analysis and administrative tasks.

If this extensive yet non-exhaustive list specifically targets your job, perhaps you should be a little worried about your job’s efficacy, but it ought to be decades before ChatGPT may become autonomous.

Sometimes people have difficulty accepting new technology into their lives, but as long as people continue questioning, experimenting and tinkering with technology. There is truly no fear in finding new approaches to doing mundane tasks because people can focus their brain power on the creative ambitions that a fulfilling life calls for. As for now, ChatGPT only has a text box, waits for user input and processes requests on a distant server, much like Google’s search homepage. It is entirely up to people to use ChatGPT responsibly and ethically as a tool of their trade.