ChatGPT

ChatGPT was released while I was in the middle of my final solitary meditation retreat while training at the Monastic Academy. I remember walking on the path back to my room when my partner at the time excitedly shared about its emergence and the way it was taking the world by… Show more

ChatGPT-4 was pitted against 151 human participants across three divergent thinking tests, revealing that the AI demonstrated a higher level of creativity. The tests, designed to assess the ability to generate unique solutions, showed GPT-4 providing more original and elaborate answers.

ChatGPT didn’t say much that was useful at all. But—as the students reflected in their conversation after reading ChatGPT’s analysis—neither did they. One student noted that they were just saying “formulaic, buzzwordy stuff” rather than tackling the issue with fresh thinking. They were unnerved by how closely the empty shine of ChatGPT’s answer mir... See more