Young people catch heat for being overly focused on personal identity, but they've got nothing on ChatGPT. Toy with the bot long enough, and you'll notice that it has an awkward, self-regarding tic: "As an AI language model," it often says, before getting to the heart of the matter. This tendency is especially pronounced when you query ChatGPT about its own strengths and weaknesses. "As an AI language model, my primary function is …" The workings of AI language models are by nature mysterious, but one can guess why ChatGPT responds this way. The bot smashes our questions into pieces and evaluates each for significance, looking for the crucial first bit that shapes the logical order of its response.

New advancements in data science often spark dire predictions about how powerful new technologies will transform the world. Yet, as writer Stephen Shankland reminds us, technologies like Open AI's new Chat GPT (short for chat-based Generative Pretrained Transformer) are created by humans. Chat GPT is a chatbot that is "trained with human assistance to deliver more useful, better dialog." The people assisting that training--those who create the models and assemble the data used to train chatbots--make a difference in the technologies that will go on to shape our lives. Computer scientist Joy Buolamwini, an early critic of racial bias in facial recognition software, said technology should "be more attuned to the people who use it and the people it's used on."

Reading the title, you might say something is wrong with me. But I dare to repeat it. The impostor syndrome is a developer's best friend when appropriately managed. I also believe that the impostor syndrome is more prominent in software development due to the large volume of knowledge you need to possess, and the constant changing of tools and programming languages. The programming language and tools you are using today might become obsolete in one year.

You spent a lot of time trying to learn Machine Learning. You read a lot of books, you watched various MOOCs, and you earned a lot of certifications. But despite all this effort, you still haven't applied to your dream job, nor started to build your portfolio. You feel you haven't learned anything, and you think the solution is to read another book or earn another certification. If you identify yourself with this situation, you may be suffering from the impostor syndrome.