
Communications is too important for ChatGPT to shortcut
Many of us have given it a go in the last couple of weeks: Asking ChatGPT to concoct an abstract poem about dancing cows at Christmas, or to suggest a joke about some unsavory politicians (some things write themselves), or even testing its ability to perform the written work that paying jobs demand. It tantalizes the shortcutting reflexes in our brains — which want everything now, now, now!