Abstract
This brief editorial focuses on the contribution in this volume titled ‘Machines Will Never Replace Humans!’ compiled by GPT-3. The brief text is provocative. It is provocative in demonstrating the potential efficiencies and complexities of machine-produced natural language text for ‘writing’ professions like law and the academy. It is further provocative as it reflects back the image and representation of the human within the digital. There is a denotive suggestion that humans are valuable and significant as lawyers because they possess intuition. There is a further suggestion that humans, or more precisely the imprint of humans in the digital, are televisual consumers of dated sitcoms, revealing the disconnect between existent digital archives and the totality of humanity.
Highlights
As Richard Susskind has documented for 30 years, computer-aided and, more recently, artificial intelligence (AI)-informed predictive text tools have assisted students, lawyers and professors to proof and check their writing.[2]
It is the second note, what GPT-3 says about us humans, that I wish to dwell upon
GPT-3 is an entity birthed in the digital archive
Summary
Friends the ‘intuition’ trump is used to suggest that humans need to supervise AI or be in the loop in decision-making processes. This is possibly the actual reality of the digital archive that GPT-3 engages with It is the record of the chattering, middle classes of the Global North—the white privilege that critics can identify in Friends.[9] It is a comfortable world of televisual consumption and care for a friend’s relationship status. It is not the frantic gig-hopping by the precariat, the long hours of smartphone assembling in a Party-approved factory, the experiences of a woman in Afghanistan or a young First Nations man being approached by police officers in the Northern Territory. This should be the takeaway from GPT-3’s data dump on Friends, intuition and law, that who will be human in the digital future is being constructed in the present
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