Christopher Grobe Why I'm not afraid of chat gpt


(And I’m not even talking about the human intelligence coded into ChatGPT by the writers whose words have been fed into its language model or by the “ghost workers” who helped tag and train its data.)

 Then, it couches every claim in ambiguous hedge words like “most,” “often,” “many,” and “some,” which ask the reader to do the writer’s work by deciding for themselves how limited or broad each claim was actually meant to be.

When prodded to cite specific evidence, it supplies a slightly narrower generalization. Even when supplied with specific evidence relevant to its arguments, it cannot do the work of connecting the one to the other. That’s because it is not actually dealing with facts about the world, but with the proximity of various clusters of words in a hugely multidimensional language model. It can endlessly move through the layers of that model and around each layer’s clusters of keywords, but it cannot get below these words to the facts they represent.  When it appears to do so, it is usually just narrating part of its own inner architecture, as when it paraphrases a quotation you’ve given it or maps out the structure of a metaphor contained within that quotation. Being able to recognize these limitations, we are able to use them but also to think beyond them. We of course have the option to thoughtlessly assent, but we can also think twice — and isn’t that a good description of what we teach in the liberal arts?

 Once we bring the hype around ChatGPT into line with reality, we can grapple with the true effects of generative AI: Far from replacing human intelligence, it will provide new starting points for some of the processes we routinely use to think.

An age of generative AI, helplessly replicating conventional wisdom and ideology, is an age that will need the uniquely, resistantly human more than ever.

 

 

 

There’s a fix for AI-generated essays. Why aren’t we using it?

ChatGPT didn’t write this and I can prove it.

by Kelsey Piper

 

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/370419/chatgpt-schools-ai-cheating-plagiarism-detection?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

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