Brainstorming usually means getting a group of people together to generate new ideas. I have found a unique way of brainstorming by getting the artificial intelligence program ChatGPT to generate interesting questions and answers.
I am now working on a chapter on musical consciousness and ChatGPT has generated great questions like “What are good questions about the role of consciousness in music?” Typically, ChatGPT produces 10-20 new questions including ones that probably would not have occurred to me even with quite a lot of research. The questions generated by ChatGPT are distinct. Many of them are surprising, and some of them are highly valuable. Therefore, ChatGPT’s question generation seems to me to qualify as creative.
After ChatGPT generates a list of questions, you can get it to answer one question at a time. This process of getting ChatGPT to provide questions and answers could go on and on and on, although some repetition will turn up. The questions are always interesting, but I don’t trust the answers until I can check them out in reliable sources because ChatGPT has a bad reputation for making stuff up.
I call this new method “ChatStorming”, but it raises some difficult questions: the first is whether it is plagiarism(剽窃)to use answers provided by ChatGPT. ChatGPT has no copyright to its materials. However, it would still be intellectually dishonest to claim the writing produced by ChatGPT as your own. The second: Is ChatGPT truly capable of generating new ideas? ChatGPT is skillful at producing creative questions, but how about concepts, hypotheses(假设), and methods? To my astonishment, the results are definitely novel and surprising, but I don’t yet know whether they can also be valuable. It will take much testing and evaluation to determine whether ChatGPT and even better models like GPT-4 can be creative with new ideas as well as questions.
A third question is what it would take for a large language model to dominate humans. Large language models are major advances in AI that can further improve human creativity, but they are to be confirmed.
【小题1】For what purpose did the author use ChatGPT?| A．To seek some musical help. | B．To improve his music taste. |
| C．To question its safety. | D．To study its limitations. |
| A．The author refuses to accept them. |
| B．The author can easily understand them. |
| C．The author thinks highly of them. |
| D．The author is cautious of accepting them. |
| A．It can be used as freely as possible. |
| B．It can provide more valuable methods. |
| C．Its creativity requires to be tested. |
| D．It can benefit humans a lot. |
| A．A technology report. | B．A product introduction. |
| C．A natural science magazine. | D．A personal blog. |
