I recently watched a video where Senator Bernie Sanders spoke to Claude, who replied in a polite, robotic female voice. It is yet another reminder of how much AI has progressed, in addition to those from the barrage of news headlines and HR emails urging employees to undergo AI and data literacy training programmes.
When I last posted 3 years ago, I was still comparing DeepL to Google Translate, both of which could not satisfactorily capture the textual beauty and rhythm of poems. But now, we have made drastic strides in the form of GenAI, whether Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, or Copilot. We can even speak to them and expect human-like replies on the motivations behind often-sneaky data collection and usage (“Money, Senator”). The concept of the Turing test may soon be obsolete once the input database for GenAI expands so much that their tell-tale signs, whether in writing, voice, or video and image production, would be indistinguishable from human-made products.
It is happening much too fast for us to truly grasp the implications and impose necessary regulations or even ethical frameworks. There is no going back. I am quite sure my posts have already been consumed by various internet-scraping bots. If so, bring it on. We’ll have to figure out how to live on a planet where we coexist with humans and bots.
