{"id":3992,"date":"2023-10-23T01:49:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T06:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3992"},"modified":"2023-10-07T06:58:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T11:58:54","slug":"a-word-multiplier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2023\/10\/a-word-multiplier\/","title":{"rendered":"A Word Multiplier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>These new chattering bots like ChatGPT are great word multipliers. Do we need word multipliers? That is the question.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Try this at home:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;Tell ChatGPT&#8221; to give me 500 words on topic X.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ask ChatGPT to give me the top five points of those 500 words.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For each of the five points, tell ChatGPT to give me 500 words.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am now up to 2,500 words in ten minutes. In another ten minutes I will have 5,000 words. In an hour I will have 50,000 words. 50,000 words is a book. There, done it. I wrote a book using a software tool in an hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If I push this idea, I can produce an encyclopedia in a day or two. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But wait, I already have an encyclopedia. Why do I want to make another one? ChatGPT mimics the world&#8217;s encyclopedias. Did we do anything there or just mimic a mimic and end where we started?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m starting to confuse myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These chattering things are great at multiplying words. Start with a sentence and have a book in an hour. Wow! I guess that is an accomplishment. Or is it? Is that book worth having? These are too many questions for a rainy Saturday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips These new chattering bots like ChatGPT are great word multipliers. Do we need word multipliers? That is the question. Try this at home: I am now up to 2,500 words in ten minutes. In another ten minutes I will have 5,000 words. In an hour I will have 50,000 words. 50,000 words [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[469,247,411,3,292,5],"tags":[470,248,345,126,295,128],"class_list":["post-3992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-questions","category-software","category-technology","category-tools","category-writing","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-questions","tag-software","tag-technology","tag-tools","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3993,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992\/revisions\/3993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}