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I am completely ignorant when it comes to AI. I listened to this talk by Jordon Peterson and I find it chilling
I doubt that Jordan Peterson knows any better than you. ChatGPT is not an AI, it just embodies some techniques from AI research, while lacking any real intelligence.
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ChatGPT can apparently produce university quality papers in 3 seconds on pretty much any subject you can name
Can it? Some have looked at its output and disagreed:
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In a very real sense then, ChatGPT cannot write an essay. It can imitate an essay, but because it is incapable of the tasks which give an essay its actual use value (original thought and analysis), it can only produce inferior copies of other writing.
On an actual essay produced by ChatGPT:
Exact counting here will vary but I identified 38 factual claims, of which 7 were correct, 7 were badly distorted and 24 were simply wrong. A trainwreck this bad would absolutely have me meeting with a student and raising questions which – if the paper was machine written – might be very hard for the student to answer.
Add to that ChatGPT’s tendency to invent sources and it really isn’t something any college student should risk using.