ChatGPT: Reframing How We Work

Not every notable technological awakening necessarily signals the potential for a dystopian “rise of the machines.” ChatGPT/OpenAI bursting on the scene has raised eyebrows and, in its present relative infancy, caused no small amount of speculation over what it might usher in and how we might use it. As the early first consumer applications come online, and despite a multitude of interesting prognostication, much of this is unknowable at this point. It is, as a recent Wall Street Journal OP-ED remarked, “an inhuman analogue to cognition.” So, ChatGPT needs to be cultivated, cared for, and fed, understood, and revealed to be embraced and productively controlled. Perhaps what can be said with relative certainty is that as public awareness, understanding, and application continue to build, we are at an inflection point.