ChatGPT is all over the news lately. If you missed it, ChatGPT is a form of artificial intelligence (AI) operated by OpenAI. ChatGPT is trained on data from various sources, including books, articles, websites, and other publicly available text type data. Users can ask ChatGTP questions in a search bar about nearly anything and ChatGPT responds based upon its training data. As ChatGPT is fed more training data, it gets smarter about how its answers questions.
ChatGPT promises to replace a lot of human tasks that involve creation of text, such as writing articles about specific subject matters. Teachers and professors appear to be the most immediately concerned about this technology, as ChatGPT could easily write, for example, a book report on Charles Dickens’s “A Tale of Two Cities.” Students looking for someone else to write that essay now have it.
I’ve been wondering what this sort of technology means for agriculture.
I decided I would ask ChatGTP and see what how it views its impact on farming. I asked ChatGPT, “What are the top five ways that ChatGTP will revolutionize agriculture in the US?” Here is how it responded (within 5 seconds).
If you knew nothing about agriculture, you would think ChatGPT’s predictions were pretty amazing. These predictions come across as very authoritative and knowledgable. But peel back the veneer and you find a kind of a word salad that sounds impressive, but lacks much depth or meaning. Most of these five points are just regurgitating the same concepts: data analysis and prediction.
Overall, though, ChatGPT has a lot of promise and is a pretty amazing technology. It will only get better as it consumes more training data, and that includes agricultural data. In what ways do you think ChatGTP will change agriculture?
About the Author: Todd Janzen is an attorney who is a frequent author and speaker on legal issues affecting agriculture. He writes a regular blog column on law and technology issues facing agriculture, which can be found at Janzen Ag Law Blog. 
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What are five ways ChatGTP will revolutionize agriculture in the U.S.? – Successful Farming
