ChatGPT Is the Perfect Creative Machine — Except For One Big Little Thing

Have you heard of ShakespeareGPT?

I don’t know where William Shakespeare is now. Perhaps he’s in heaven. Perhaps his flesh and bones turned into dust and joined the stars on the other side of the universe. Perhaps his soul is still dancing around. Or perhaps he simply is no more.

I may not know where he is or where he was while alive. I don’t know how he was as a person, as a son, or as a husband either, but I know him. You, too, know him. Well, everyone knows him because his words didn’t leave this world when he did; they stayed behind, with the rest of us, and traveled through time and space with the generations that followed until today.

He devoted his life to lending us a legacy that changed humanity forever. That legacy is as powerful today as it has ever been.

We’d know nothing about William Shakespeare, however, had he written Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, or King Lear with ChatGPT.

This article is a selection from The Algorithmic Bridge, an educational newsletter whose purpose is to bridge the gap between AI, algorithms, and people. It will help you understand the impact AI has in your life and develop the tools to better navigate the future.