{"id":84491,"date":"2022-12-14T15:01:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T20:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=84491"},"modified":"2022-12-14T16:10:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T21:10:38","slug":"ai-bot-chatgpt-stuns-academics-with-essay-writing-skills-and-usability-hern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/12\/14\/ai-bot-chatgpt-stuns-academics-with-essay-writing-skills-and-usability-hern\/","title":{"rendered":"AI bot ChatGPT stuns academics with essay-writing skills and usability [Hern]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/dec\/04\/ai-bot-chatgpt-stuns-academics-with-essay-writing-skills-and-usability\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>AI bot ChatGPT stuns academics with essay-writing skills and usability<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from theguardian.com by Alex Hern<br \/>\n<em>Latest chatbot from Elon Musk-founded OpenAI can identify incorrect premises and refuse to answer inappropriate requests<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Professors, programmers and journalists could all be out of a job in just a few years, after the latest chatbot from the Elon Musk-founded OpenAI foundation stunned onlookers with its writing ability, proficiency at complex tasks, and ease of use.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The system, called ChatGPT, is the latest evolution of the GPT family of text-generating AIs. Two years ago, the team\u2019s previous AI, GPT3, was\u00a0able to generate an opinion piece for the Guardian, and ChatGPT has significant further capabilities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">In the days since it was released, academics have generated responses to exam queries that they say would result in full marks if submitted by an undergraduate, and programmers have used the tool to solve coding challenges in obscure programming languages in a matter of seconds \u2013 before writing limericks explaining the functionality.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Also related\/see:<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/ai-and-the-future-of-undergraduate-writing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>AI and the future of undergraduate writing<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from chronicle.com by Beth McMurtrie<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Is the college essay dead? Are hordes of students going to use artificial intelligence to cheat on their writing assignments? Has machine learning reached the point where auto-generated text looks like what a typical first-year student might produce?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">And what does it mean for professors if the answer to those questions is \u201cyes\u201d?<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nScholars of teaching, writing, and digital literacy say there\u2019s no doubt that tools like ChatGPT will, in some shape or form, become part of everyday writing, the way calculators and computers have become integral to math and science. It is critical, they say, to begin conversations with students and colleagues about how to shape and harness these AI tools as an aide, rather than a substitute, for learning.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>\u201cAcademia really has to look at itself in the mirror and decide what it\u2019s going to be,\u201d said Josh Eyler, director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the University of Mississippi, who has criticized the \u201cmoral panic\u201d he has seen in response to ChatGPT. \u201cIs it going to be more concerned with compliance and policing behaviors and trying to get out in front of cheating, without any evidence to support whether or not that\u2019s actually going to happen? Or does it want to think about trust in students as its first reaction and building that trust into its response and its pedagogy?\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">ChatGPT is incredibly limited, but good enough at some things to create a misleading impression of greatness.<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s a mistake to be relying on it for anything important right now. it\u2019s a preview of progress; we have lots of work to do on robustness and truthfulness.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sam Altman (@sama) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sama\/status\/1601731295792414720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">fun creative inspiration; great! reliance for factual queries; not such a good idea.<\/p>\n<p>we will work hard to improve!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sam Altman (@sama) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sama\/status\/1601731503934697472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">1\/Large language models like Galactica and ChatGPT can spout nonsense in a confident, authoritative tone. This overconfidence &#8211; which reflects the data they\u2019re trained on &#8211; makes them more likely to mislead.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andrew Ng (@AndrewYNg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewYNg\/status\/1602725934565830657?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 13, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2022-12-12\/chatgpt-the-gpt-3-chatbot-from-openai-microsoft-is-tech-magic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>ChatGPT Could Be AI\u2019s iPhone Moment<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from bloomberg.com by Vlad Savov; with thanks to Dany DeGrave for his Tweet on this<\/p>\n<p><em> Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The thing is, a good toy has a huge advantage: People love to play with it, and the more they do, the quicker its designers can make it into something more. People are documenting their experiences with ChatGPT on Twitter, looking like giddy kids experimenting with something they\u2019re not even sure they should be allowed to have. There\u2019s humor, discovery and a game of figuring out the limitations of the system.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>And on the legal side of things:<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In the legal education context, I&#8217;ve been playing around with generating fact patterns and short documents to use in exercises.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rebecca Fordon (@theFordon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theFordon\/status\/1601315044246966273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI bot ChatGPT stuns academics with essay-writing skills and usability &#8212; from theguardian.com by Alex Hern Latest chatbot from Elon Musk-founded OpenAI can identify incorrect premises and refuse to answer inappropriate requests Excerpt: Professors, programmers and journalists could all be out of a job in just a few years, after the latest chatbot from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[322,356,115,302,45,260,286,343,32,210,533,71,37,36,35,3,391,419,119,64,825,7,838,216,133,76,309,196,204,454,195,38,321,214,367,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjunct-faculty","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-computer-science","category-content-development-aggregation-repositories","category-digital-learning","category-education","category-education-technology","category-emerging-technologies","category-experimentation","category-faculty-staff","category-future","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-higher-education","category-human-computer-interaction-hci","category-ideas-teaching","category-instructional-design","category-it-in-he","category-law-schools","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-experience-design","category-microsoft","category-online-media","category-open-courseware-and-systems","category-platforms","category-productivity-tips-and-tricks","category-programming","category-the-downsides-of-technology","category-tools","category-uk","category-united-states","category-universities","category-vendors","category-englishwriting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84491"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84512,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84491\/revisions\/84512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}