AI

Friends showing empathy

In the words of GPT-4, “AI can mimic empathy to a certain degree, but cannot genuinely empathize with a human in the way humans empathize with each other”.

No AI can feel the emotions we feel. They can read the text of Romeo and Juliet, or the script for Sleepless in Seattle… and then mimic the emotion of love. But they cannot feel love.

They can’t love a person, or even care about that person. Whether a person is happy or sad means nothing to an AI.

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I created this image with the midjourney AI tool, using the prompt: 1950s style robot, sitting at desk, writing with pen and paper. nostalgic look and setting, in color

You’ve almost certainly heard the buzz about ChatGPT, the AI writer and copywriter.

Maybe you’ve tried it out a few times.

It’s amazing, and scary too. A lot of writers and copywriters are worried that tools like this will steal their jobs.

I get it. At first sight, I had the same worries. I asked it to write me an email, a blog post and a simple sales page. It did a pretty good job with each. Ouch!

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