{"id":12337,"date":"2023-11-21T16:37:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T15:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/21\/ai-is-changing-the-world-and-ive-just-eaten-the-underwhelming-pasta-that-proves-it-zing-tsjeng\/"},"modified":"2023-11-21T16:37:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T15:37:49","slug":"ai-is-changing-the-world-and-ive-just-eaten-the-underwhelming-pasta-that-proves-it-zing-tsjeng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/21\/ai-is-changing-the-world-and-ive-just-eaten-the-underwhelming-pasta-that-proves-it-zing-tsjeng\/","title":{"rendered":"AI is changing the world \u2013 and I\u2019ve just eaten the underwhelming pasta that proves it | Zing Tsjeng"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the great and the good worry about the dangers of artificial intelligence, my friends are embracing it to pad out their emails and cut corners in the kitchen<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a drama-filled week for OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT. Its wunderkind CEO Sam Altman has been unceremoniously booted out by its board and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/nov\/20\/openai-staff-walkout-sam-altman-board\">more than 600 staff members are now threatening to quit<\/a> unless he\u2019s allowed back in. (Don\u2019t be too sad for Altman \u2013 the 38-year-old has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/nov\/20\/sam-altman-openai-ceo-wont-return-chatgpt-talks-fail-emmett-shear-twitch\">already been snapped up by Microsoft<\/a> for an undisclosed sum.)<\/p>\n<p>As a writer, I am of course duty-bound to swear on my copy of McNae\u2019s Essential Law for Journalists that I did not use OpenAI\u2019s chatbot to write this column \u2013 or did I? Even if I did, why would I fess up to it? Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/buzzfeed-publishing-articles-by-ai\">disastrously unpopular attempts by the likes of BuzzFeed to create AI-assisted content<\/a>, its name is mud in the media industry. Saying you use ChatGPT is like admitting you thought <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/T-1000\">the T-1000<\/a> was just misunderstood or that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Skynet_(Terminator)\">Skynet<\/a> had a point.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/nov\/21\/ai-is-changing-the-world-and-i-have-just-eaten-the-underwhelming-pasta-that-proves-it\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/af8144b0845d946a899210b362c0b7d9de962880\/0_226_5960_3576\/master\/5960.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8c8a5b4d02c5db8e93d5a0a5c4b275d4\" title=\"AI is changing the world \u2013 and I\u2019ve just eaten the underwhelming pasta that proves it | Zing Tsjeng\" \/>While the great and the good worry about the dangers of artificial intelligence, my friends are embracing it to pad out their emails and cut corners in the kitchen<br \/>\nIt\u2019s been a drama-filled week for OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT. Its wunderkind CEO Sam Altman has been unceremoniously booted out by its board and more than 600 staff members are now threatening to quit unless he\u2019s allowed back in. (Don\u2019t be too sad for Altman \u2013 the 38-year-old has already been snapped up by Microsoft for an undisclosed sum.)<br \/>\nAs a writer, I am of course duty-bound to swear on my copy of McNae\u2019s Essential Law for Journalists that I did not use OpenAI\u2019s chatbot to write this column \u2013 or did I? Even if I did, why would I fess up to it? Thanks to disastrously unpopular attempts by the likes of BuzzFeed to create AI-assisted content, its name is mud in the media industry. Saying you use ChatGPT is like admitting you thought the T-1000 was just misunderstood or that Skynet had a point. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the great and the good worry about the dangers of artificial intelligence, my friends are embracing it to pad out their emails and cut corners in the kitchen It\u2019s been a drama-filled week for OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT. Its wunderkind CEO Sam Altman has been unceremoniously booted out by its board and more &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/21\/ai-is-changing-the-world-and-ive-just-eaten-the-underwhelming-pasta-that-proves-it-zing-tsjeng\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AI is changing the world \u2013 and I\u2019ve just eaten the underwhelming pasta that proves it | Zing Tsjeng<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12337"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}