{"id":166386,"date":"2023-06-25T12:22:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T17:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/the-boundary-between-human-language-and-chatgpt-is-fuzzier-than-you-think"},"modified":"2023-06-25T12:22:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T17:22:24","slug":"the-boundary-between-human-language-and-chatgpt-is-fuzzier-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/the-boundary-between-human-language-and-chatgpt-is-fuzzier-than-you-think","title":{"rendered":"The Boundary Between Human Language and ChatGPT Is Fuzzier Than You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/reWewSrHH4s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When I\u2019m asked to check a box to confirm I\u2019m not a robot, I don\u2019t give it a second thought\u2014of course I\u2019m not a robot. On the other hand, when my email client suggests a word or phrase to complete my sentence, or when my phone guesses the next word I\u2019m about to text, I start to doubt myself. Is that what I meant to say? Would it have occurred to me if the application hadn\u2019t suggested it? Am I part robot? These large language models have been trained on massive amounts of \u201cnatural\u201d human language. Does this make the robots part human?<\/p>\n<p>AI chatbots are new, but public debates over language change are not. As a <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=q4Lzs_kAAAAJ&hl=en\">linguistic anthropologist<\/a>, I find human reactions to ChatGPT the most interesting thing about it. Looking carefully at such reactions reveals the beliefs about language underlying people\u2019s ambivalent, uneasy, still-evolving relationship with AI interlocutors.<\/p>\n<p>ChatGPT and the like hold up a mirror to human language. Humans are both highly original and unoriginal when it comes to language. Chatbots reflect this, revealing tendencies and patterns that are already present in interactions with other humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I\u2019m asked to check a box to confirm I\u2019m not a robot, I don\u2019t give it a second thought\u2014of course I\u2019m not a robot. On the other hand, when my email client suggests a word or phrase to complete my sentence, or when my phone guesses the next word I\u2019m about to text, I [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}