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A.I. Strangelove
How I learned to stop worrying and love ChatGPT.
ChatGPT could never have written this article.
The new A.I. program may be the hottest ticket in Silicon Valley at the moment, coming soon to Capitol Hill and possibly a college classroom near you — even if they don’t know it yet — but it isn’t the career-ending catastrophe so many fear.
ChatGPT, in its days-old short life, has already put up some impressive achievements. It passed the bar and the official U.S. Medical Licensing exam — no mean feat.
Most recently, the advanced AI program even trounced the Wharton Business School’s core exam.
In the immortal words of Wharton’s Christian Terwiesch, “Would Chat GPT3 Get a Wharton MBA? A Prediction Based on Its Performance in the Operations Management Course”, Mack Institute for Innovation Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2023.”:
“OpenAI’s Chat GPT3 has shown a remarkable ability to automate some of the skills of highly compensated knowledge workers in general and specifically the knowledge workers in the jobs held by MBA graduates including analysts, managers, and consultants.”
The aforementioned analysts, managers, and consultants are, of course, terrified. High school teachers and college professors are equally afraid. High school…