IP 2: Artificial Intelligence

How do your responses differ from what a machine could generate?

My responses to the biographical questions are somewhat similar to ChatGPT’s. Perhaps it is because I was mostly unfamiliar with these public figures, so I was relying on what I read online to help me form my answer. I didn’t include any personal interpretations in those responses.

 In contrast, my answers to the questions about the various differences between humans and machines are more human-like than ChatGPT’s responses. While I relied on some of the articles we had to read for this module, as well as the suggested texts, to help me formulate my answers, I also used my prior personal knowledge and ideas. For instance, I think a lot about the denotation versus connotation of my words, so I included that idea in my response on machine versus human languages. 

Chat GPT’s responses are also more systematic and structured than my answers. They all follow a similar formula of “___differs from ___in several ways” accompanied by a breakdown of the differing aspects.

I also notice a difference in response depth and breadth.  Chat GPT’s responses tend to have more breadth than my responses because it is working with a larger dataset; the depth of its point it makes is evenly distributed. Meanwhile, the depth of certain aspects of my response tend to unevenly distributed. I spend more words focusing on parts that I am more knowledgeable about, feel more comfortable about, or am more interested in.  For example, ChatGPT doesn’t really reflect on its algorithmic biases problem while my response centres around that because of the articles I had just read and my own personal interest in the issue.

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