As with ChatGPT’s essay-writing ability, the current best use of the AI is to take its output as a starting point, from which humans can then edit it, and add their own knowledge and critical thinking ability.
But that will likely change down the road.
As Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution notes, humans working with computer assistance were once better at playing chess than unaided humans, or computers alone. But for a while now, computers alone have been better at chess than even humans working along with computers.
The same thing, he notes, has happened with facial recognition. A study in the Journal of Experimental Psychology found that humans no longer provide added value in matching an identity with a photo. Instead, a computer working alone now has less error.