Page 11: of Maritime Reporter Magazine (February 2023)

time workers and the types of vessels they operate, generating can look forward to this in the upcoming edition of Training content that is relevant and speci? c to their job. It generates a Tips for Ships. But until then, if you consider yourself a consistent level of detail, format, and quality of training ma- skeptic in terms of the ability of ChatGPT to write reason- terials, which can be critical for safety training. ChatGPT can able content, consider the following: the text above this also be used to generate content in multiple languages, which paragraph was written by ChatGPT, not by me. I simply can be bene? cial for training workers who speak different lan- asked it a few questions and pasted the answers above, for guages. It clearly can also do this much more cost effectively you. Instead of spending my usual 4+ hours writing this ar- than hiring a team of writers or trainers. ticle, the total task took me about 30 minutes. Half to formu-

But there are potential downsides as well. One is that the late the questions for ChatGPT, and half to make a few small language model may not have a deep understanding of mari- edits. Whatever your view on this, make no mistake. Bob was time operations and may produce inaccurate or misleading never more correct than now - the times they are a-changin’.

information. Additionally, the model may not be able to fully Until next time, thank you for reading and sail safely!

understand and incorporate the nuances and complexities of human communication, which could lead to confusion or mis-

The Author interpretation among trainees. Finally, the model is based on

Goldberg patterns in the text it has been trained on, and therefore it may

Murray Goldberg is CEO of Marine generate content that is offensive, biased or inappropriate.

Learning Systems.

There is so much more to discuss on this topic. Of course,

Email: [email protected] one of the most interesting and telling experiments would be to try generating some training content using ChatGPT. You www.marinelink.com 11

MR #2 (1-17).indd 11 2/2/2023 9:05:05 AM