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Last week, while fine-tuning my manuscript for publication, doubts clouded my mind. There has been a flood of articles and buzz about artificial intelligence (AI) ChatGPT, including its use for writing and content development. Is there a need for a “Clear and Concise Writing” book? Did I waste my time drafting this? Shall I spend more time getting it published?<\/p>\n\n\n\n


The use of AI has advantages and flaws. It can save time and money, reduce errors and increase accuracy, hide one’s lack of competence, and enthuse laziness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n


AI “ChatGPT does not have the ability to search the internet for information and rather, uses the information it learned from training data to generate a response, which leaves room for error”. \u2013 Ortiz, 2022 (https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/what-is-chatgpt-and-why-does-it-matter-heres-what-you-need-to-know\/).<\/p>\n\n\n\n


“As a language model, ChatGPT is not a traditional source that would typically be included in a bibliography. Instead, you can acknowledge the use of the model in the text and a note or a disclaimer. For example, you can add a statement like “This document was generated with the help of ChatGPT, a large language model developed by OpenAI. It’s important to note that ChatGPT is a tool, it does not conduct original research, it only provides the information it was trained on, and it’s not an author”. \u2013 ChatGPT by OpenAI accessed on 20\/01\/2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Out of curiosity, I logged in on 22\/01\/23. This is what it gave me: “Write an acrostic poem about the status of ChatGPT.
C: ChatGPT is currently down
H: Huge demand has caused the site to crash
A: All users will have to wait
T: Time is needed for the servers to catch up
G: Go grab a coffee and check back soon
P: Patience is key in this situation
T: Trust that the team is working hard to fix it up”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


English physicist Stephen William Hawking (1942-2018), famous for his theories on relativity and quantum mechanics, had said: “The primitive forms of artificial intelligence we already have, have proved very useful. But I think the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” (Cellan-Jones, https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-30290540. Seen on 23\/01\/23).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two days ago, I received an email from one of my students that included these encouraging words: “I’ve been thinking about the question you raised earlier about whether you should publish the book or not. I hope you will, and human beings will always do. You (human authors in general) write books, and AI generates them. I don’t care how good an AI-generated book may\/will be one day. I like knowing that there’s someone feeling something while writing the book that makes me feel something when reading it”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n


I have subtitled my book “Self-confidence and not software -dependence”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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