A few controversial things I believe about LinkedIn's AI-generated articles:

1) The articles are boring.

I’m not saying ChatGPT or Generative AI can't help us write or create.

I am saying the hype is starting to wear off as we find AI's limits.

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2) Large Language Models don't know what words mean

Contrary to popular belief, AI isn't going to take our jobs any time soon.

Gary Smith, Senior Fellow at Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence, showed that AI can mimic human conversation but doesn't know what words mean.

He asked GPT-3 two questions from his midterm exam from an introductory statistics class. Smith asked a straightforward probability question, "This seemed like a straightforward question that would not elicit a BS answer. Nonetheless, ChatGPT gave a 106-word explanation for its answer, 46%. The correct answer is 17/61 (28%)"

Smith asked another question that every student recognized as the fallacious law of averages. Smith wrote, "ChatGPT, in contrast, did what it does best—providing a tedious 248-word essay that danced around the question."

Copy-pasting AI responses is a fast track to wrong answers and unreadable explanations.

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3) AI has biases

I've seen a lot of Prompt Generator tips for AI (and I've tried them!) but using ChatGPT blindly is not without its faults.

Which leads to…

Bing AI named itself and told New York Times reporter Kevin Roose, that he did not love his spouse, but instead loved it, Sydney.

In her book, The Big Nine, Amy Webb explains how biases, especially unintentional ones, are built into AI, and how that impacts us.

We use AI in our daily lives, but only 30% of Americans got a 6-question quiz right about what devices and services use AI (and it didn't even include ChatGPT).

Clearly what “most people do” doesn’t work.

So do something else.

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4) You can make the collaborative articles better.

Giant paragraphs of AI word vomit are not fun to read.

Instead, you can make AI-generated LinkedIn articles fun and informative without falling into the same trap as ChatGPT.

{Step1} When you share an example, LinkedIn suggests you start with the verbiage, "In my experience," "An example of," or "I agree but."

{Step2} Use bullet lists to break up the AI-written paragraphs (write for humans - you are one!)

{Step3} Share your real-world stories. For example, in an article about training, I shared how we developed courses and delivered them to plant operators.