Thursday, January 19, 2023

ChatGPT, an Alternative?

 The Jerusalem Post details an interesting alternative to the flashy AI report writer. They note:

However, the AI chatbot isn't always correct and more importantly, it doesn't usually provide sources. And even if it does, many have pointed out that these sources might not even exist. This is one of the reasons why many schools and companies have tried to ban ChatGPT's usage. Wordtune Spices, though, is a bit different. Unlike ChatGPT, Wordtune Spices doesn't "write" the text in the same way. This means that no one can use it to essentially write an essay for them. What it does instead, though, is serves as "co-writer." One simply inputs already written text and it offers options to add to the text and improve it. But more importantly, it also always provides sources. 

This approach is clearly a superior one. The use of recent referenced research and its assembly into the outline of a coherent document written by the writer not the program allows for what I call secondary puzzle solving,

Secondary puzzle solving, SPS, is a step above a Review paper. The SPS approach starts with a question that may be answered by selecting parts of primary research and assembling them together. The net result is a unique solution to a primary problem using identified primary sources often verbatim. It does not paraphrase the source but selects key statements and refers to them directly. 

I have been practicing this approach for the past several years with some modest success. I suspect that it may prove useful for addressing holistic issues in areas such as cancer immunotherapy.