AI, the best entrepreneur who will make us all rich?

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I recently came across quite an interesting AI, called „Hells Pitching“ (1) named after the famous cooking show from Gordon Ramsey „Hells Kitchen“, it even features a picture of him when answering prompts. The AI mainly roasts one business pitch by delving deeper into the idea and exploring certain shortcomings of the idea and application. I prompted it to rate my idea of an AI which can be used to predict the demand for energy in order to regulate energy production to prevent outages. However, I did not think about it too extensively and it caught up to me pretty quickly, as can be seen below.

While the tone of the AI is rather harsh and provocative, it does provide decent comments and questions about the details of the idea. I believe that this can be beneficial for small companies or founders to confirm whether their idea is marketable, realistic and authentic before investing any money.

Although such tools can be of great help for one to think further about possible ideas, the question I had in mind was concerning the data set the AI has been fed with. Imagine the AI has only been fed with “average” projects, how could it comprehend innovation and think outside of the norm, moreover how could this AI provide valuable feedback to the entrepreneur?

Is this tool really sufficient to determine whether a production or service will sell in the market? Why would anyone bother to think about ideas themselves instead of asking the AI how to make money and just follow through? Such AI tools already exist but do they actually work (2)? Luckily I did not have to find out myself since the internet is full of people who tried instead, as a quick YouTube search shows below.

Some of these videos talk about the productization of skills such as Foto and video editing which allow novice users to create pictures only a few professionals were able to create prior. This raises fundamental questions, if AI can make us all rich why aren’t we? The answer to this is a problem more complex than it might seem but interesting to think about. Likewise, where goes our creativity if all we do is prompting AI to create businesses for us, will creative prompters become the artists or Mark Zuckerberg’s of tomorrow? I assume we will soon find out as AI is developing rapidly.

1: https://app.hellspitching.com/

2: https://upmetrics.co/blog/ai-business-plan-generators

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Is that me who is writing or is it the AI?

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Everyone is eager to improve; and this is why many of us are turning towards AI recommendations for modifying sentence structures, grammar, and vocabulary. Can it be that instead of improving our personal phrasing and fluency in writing and thinking, by using AI text editor software, we neutralize our characteristic way of wording ideas? If everyone is using this software, can it be that, eventually, all digital text will sound and look the same?

I started using software such as ‘grammar.ly’, yet only recently I started wondering about the implications of using AI software to improve text documents. How much of the text still belongs to me after using ‘grammar.ly’ to re-phrase my paragraph a number of times? Can I even still say I wrote it? Is it my text – or the AI’s?

A person’s writing is, in theory, unique, and this is why certain traits of a person can be distilled from their wording and style (1). This is called stylometry and with it, it is possible to link different documents to the same person, their demographic, even age groups and sex (2). The usage of deep learning allowed stylometry models to become even more sophisticated, so much so that these models now allow digital forensics to analyse harassment emails in order to determine whether those have been written by the same author (3)(4)(5).

However, what if that author uses a generative AI model, even ChatGPT, to write the message? To what conclusion would digital forensics come to, could they still bypass the AI shield and connect the text to the human author?  What does it mean when we hide behind the AI?

I am certain that, despite the higher use of AI in digital writing, we could be able to advance other technologies in order to bypass the ‘AI shield’. However, the higher use of AI in digital writing might mean the loss of many writing styles, including human writing styles.

The issue we are now facing is the lack of motivation to write long texts and articles. Even now, many people make use of AI to automate writing their emails, assignments and even private messages.

What happens to academia when AI –think of the AI-Bing search– has full access to the internet and is able to source and cite properly?  Imagine being able to prompt your research question and receive a master thesis within minutes – written by an AI. The way I see it, this is the direction we are headed towards; from simply using ‘grammar.ly’, or advancing with ChatGPT and others.   

Sure, AI is a great tool to automate, especially administrative tasks, but when it comes to expressing our ideas, we should exercise our human potential, despite the ease of AI usage. Otherwise, we will run the risk of losing our edge.

1: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6234430

2: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221298006_Stylometric_Analysis_of_Bloggers%27_Age_and_Gender

3: Tweedie, F. J., Singh, S., & Holmes, D. I. (1996). Neural Network Applications in Stylometry: The “Federalist Papers.” Computers and the Humanities, 30(1), 1–10. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30204514)

4: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/345780982_Machine_Learning_Methods_for_Stylometry_Authorship_Attribution_and_Author_Profiling

5: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344408746_Deep_Combination_of_Stylometry_Features_in_Forensic_Authorship_Analysis

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