Percept and ChatGPT

Us? Jumping on the ChatGPT bandwagon? You bet. It’s sparked fascination, fear, and fun, in all of us at Percept. It’s also sparked a desire from Perceptors to write about it. And actually write – not feed a question into AI-assisted software. There’s a sense that we need to work through how we feel about all this “tech taking over”: is the wolf at the door? Will it be the calculator for writing? Will it make us value human creativity even more?

This is a collection of our reflections on ChatGPT and where it’s taking us. They reflect our diversity of experiences and views and styles (satire, poetry, advocacy), but also share a common grappling with the issues of our time, a need for sense-making, a sensitivity for our context, and a curiosity about what lies ahead.

Generation Chat

Suhavna Khalawan | February 2023 I’m a proud millennial. I’ve experienced technology in all shapes and forms. From a DOS operating system and dial up internet, to the interconnected technology...

Labyrinth

Sorina Oberholzer | February 2023 There’s a poem by Kenyatta Rogers called Labyrinth. It evokes for me the bleakness of those first weeks of hard lockdown – the starkness, the experience of loneliness, the...

Poking at the mind

Ursula Torr | February 2023 It’s a bit of a situation we’ve cooked up for ourselves here with this demonstration that all non-physical productivity can be better done by bots,...

Whose mind is it anyway?

Shivani Ranchod | February 2023 I have an abiding respect for the power of collective wisdom. It’s one of the reasons I love the Time To Think methodologies that we...