ChatGPT: Grading artificial intelligence's writing

OpenAI's artificial intelligence writing program ChatGPT will, with a few prompts, compose poetry, prose, song lyrics, essays, even news articles. And that has ethicists and educators worried about the program's ease at replacing human ideas with chatbot-generated words. Correspondent David Pogue delves into the minefield of AI communications and what it might mean for homework.
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[DarkandTwisted]

I do not think it's just randomly pulling things from the internet, at least not the way I use it. I am fiction writer, and the other day I took one of my already written stories, and placed it into ChatGPT just to test it. It basically just took what I wrote and made it even better. It can be a great writing assistant, outliner and editor. The thing is outstanding.😍

[GreySkyLady]

My daughter, who has dyslexia, struggles with writing. She used this for an English term paper, but went through the product to add her own thoughts and vocabulary. It was a great scaffold that allowed her to communicate her thoughts.

[wesleyk.]

Most people don't grasp just how terrifying this is. I see it as the true dawn of AI replacing so, so many jobs. I first used it on 12/15/22 and was obsessed since. It has helped me dramatically with my spreadsheet algorithms, my job, song-writing, giving me much better insights to the nature of subatomics as we currently know it... and this is just TEXT output. I actually made a rule in the home no devices or TV on Wedesdays because I was so wrapped up in it; had to sit down and reflect and focus more on God and family.

Hey, ChatGPT -- Rephrase this that that it might become the most popular comment on Youtube:

"I've been using this AI since 12/15/22 and it's completely changed my life. From improving my spreadsheet algorithms and job performance, to helping me with song-writing, and giving me deeper insights into subatomic particles. And this is just for text output! I actually made a rule in my house to turn off all devices on Wednesdays because I was getting so obsessed with it. This technology is truly terrifying, but it's also incredibly powerful and I can't wait to see what it will do in the future."

[writereducator]

I teach high school English. As soon as I saw what Open AI could do, I changed the way my classroom works. Now all writing is done pen on paper at their desks. No computers. We are old school all the way.

[margaretpeabody]

I liked the idea of going back to in class, hand written essay questions of considerable length.

[pkaine]

I remember when Yahoo and other search engines were just links and taxonomies curated by humans. Then came Google. Total game changer and allowed us access to an order of magnitude access to more information. ChatGPT is the next iteration of access to knowledge. Imagine being able to ask the smartest person any question on any subject at any time. Access to information drives human progress… it’s also not without it’s downsides, however we will always progress.

[steveconn]

AI will destroy all the nuances of individual style that gave us Fitzgerald, Bellow, Richler, all the experiential nuances that make great writing truly insightful and see between the lines of human existence. Proud to be from another era...

[kingv]

I'm only 38, but with each passing year I find myself getting less and less satisfied with the increase in information technology. Life is better when it is pure and simple. None of this stuff increases happiness, it just creates a sort of convenience while simultaneously robbing a part of your soul.

It's depressing because I know I'm in the minority.

[mililaniman]

I enjoy the challenge of writing poems and essays. I will never use chat GPT, but I think this story is interesting.

[paulschrum]

Excellent angle on this difficult emerging topic which is not going away.

[cynthiasymons]

Speaking as a college professor, the essence of plagiarism is to present the thoughts of someone else in one’s writing, without giving credit to the source—even if that “someone else” is a program. For students who do not care about learning how to think, or about going through the struggle that learning entails, and who do not care about the ethics of stealing someone else’s thoughts, this is a boon.

[movie]

"Your scientists were so preoccupied on whether or not they 'could', they never stopped to think if they 'should'."
*-Dr. Ian Malcolm ( **_Jurassic Park_** )*

[SBayrd]

Artificial writing will be a giant propagator in America’s realization of the movie Idiocracy.

[seniorp]

I’m glad he shot down hopes of AI detection solving the problems of AI generated text. The people that know AI best say it’s easy to defeat detection by simply editing or rephrasing the text. There are already many workarounds. There isn’t going to be a reliable technical solution to catch people using AI generated text.

[nitinbhakta]

You still have to fact check content produced by ChatGPT. I tried to query ChatGPT about a certain film with particular actors and actresses. It gave me specific details about a completely different movie with the same title. Both films have completely different plots, set of characters, set of actors/actresses, and even the release dates. So, there shouldn't have been a mixup. Both films were produced and released way before January 2020, which was the cutoff knowledge for ChatGPT at the time.

ChatGPT has no knowledge about this particular film which I queried. I found out that Wikipedia didn't have any knowledge about this specific film either. So, I know Wikipedia is one of the sources ChatGPT uses to gain knowledge.

[Skasparoff]

Happy to see David Pogue again : ) I still remember with warmth and a smile his fascinating, almost genius macOS «missing manual” I bought in the Russian edition 20 years ago, when I was actively learning about operating systems. I never thought before that manuals could be so interesting and humorous. Can you do that, chatGPT ? ; )

[GoingApeCostume]

My high school English teaching husband is using it to write individualized lesson plans. It takes two hours of work and distills it to minutes. Ready to be viewed by parents and students almost instantly. It aggregates and parrots, he edits.

Can he do the whole thing himself? Absolutely. The time savings and labor savings is already translating into better teaching in the classroom. That includes being able to tell when a student is using the same AI to write papers. AI will never be as good as the human beings in the room and the relationships that TIME provides.

[conr]

chatGPT can be an amazing learning device and cognitive booster. Being walked through subjects interactively, and getting used to articulating questions/ideas/perspectives with unambiguous clarity back and forth. I think the kids will be smarter for it.

[LeesReviews]

I just watched Pogue on the computer chronicles talking about his 300 page Palm Pilot book

[FlambartPhotography]

Add this (below) to GPT and what we get? Instant 3D printing? Robots popping out out of the blue, ab nihilo?

"Engineers have designed miniature robots that rapidly and reversibly shift between liquid and solid states.
Scientists from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh took gallium, a metal that melts at room temperature, and enriched it with magnetic particles.
When an alternate magnetic field is run through the metal, it can melt, move and re-form."