A robot's coming for creative jobs or making them more interesting.

From American public media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Megan McCarty-Karino.

Okay, it's kind of an unanswerable question, but one, a lot of people are thinking about.

Now that generative artificial intelligence models like Dolly and Chat GPT can create

these impressive visuals and formulate complicated answers, will human artists, writers, radio hosts

or all sorts of other creative and knowledge-based jobs go extinct?

Mark Finleason is an associate professor of computer science at Florida International

University, who offered his perspective on this zillion-dollar question in a recent

essay for the conversation.

He says, these tools likely will change creative work, but not always for the worse.

It may seem like these generative AI tools are pretty spectacularly smart, but what you

have to remember is the systems have basically gone out and memorized the internet at some

level, right?

They've read trillions of words of internet content all generated by people.

So it's actually just copying and pasting and recombining in very sophisticated ways

things that it's already seen out on the internet.

Yeah, I may have missed out here, but I feel like I have yet to see Chat GPT be funny.

Well, I mean, no, I've seen, I've seen it tell jokes, there's a lot of jokes written

down on the internet, right?

So it can go out there and then combine and recombine them.

It can tell stories, fairly simple stories.

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