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I Felt “Unintelligent” Trying To Use AI to Write an Article
Regardless of how terrified I feel staring at a blank screen or paper, thinking of how to fill them with meaningful thoughts, using AI to generate an entire article is one trick I still don’t consider an option.
Number one reason is that I feel doing so defeats the aim of "sharing your thoughts," which is why we write in the first place, and then there's the hunch I have that artificial intelligence still cannot write as well as humans.
But recently while I was trying out a list of writing tools that I came across in a blog post, one of which is an AI tool that autocompletes sentences for you as you write; and if you try out the optional sentences that pop up at every stage of your writing, you can end up writing a full article with none of your original words.
Out of curiosity, I said to give it a try.
Once on the interface, the first prompt was to type the title of the article I want to write, which I did.
This is then followed by a series of other prompts:
Prompt number two was to craft a brief description of what I wanted the post to be about (this is optional).
And prompt number three was to choose the tone I want the article to come in —among others, there are the professional, friendly, bold, and persuasive tones.
After filling out the spaces, I hit “start,” and the first sentence that popped up as a suggestion for what to start the article with made me cringe because of how apt it is.
The line reads: “As the world moves towards a more web-based society, there is no doubt that Web3 will play…”
I could as well adopt it, but at that point something Nassim Taleb wrote about in his book Fooled By Randomness hit me.
He called it the reverse Turing Test — an inversion of Alan Turing’s 1950 test for computer intelligence.
Understanding the reverse test requires that we first understand what the Turing Test is about.
