A whole new ballgame in cheating. Introducing ChatGPT

[Sun_Worshiper]

https://www.chronicle.com/article/gpt-4-can-already-pass-freshman-year-at-harvard

That says more about Harvard than about ChatGPT.

Not really. Students at any humanities or social science program in any university are assigned tons of essay assignments that Chat GPT is perfectly capable of passing. Harvard is not unique and it is obviously better than the vast majority of schools.

https://www.chronicle.com/article/gpt-4-can-already-pass-freshman-year-at-harvard

That says more about Harvard than about ChatGPT.

Or anyway, says more about the sorts of assessments that colleges have been using.

Until very recently there was nothing wrong with giving writing assignments to students. I imagine most of us will continue to do so, even despite the ability of ChatGPT to pass them with ease.

I'll be changing my approach in the fall to have more presentations and more in-class writing with the lockdown browser. But I'll also have takehome essays, which I'll make nuanced enough that students will need to do some work on their own, even if they are using ChatGPT. I'll also teach students the strengths (which are impressive) and weaknesses of text generative AI.

[Hegemony]

I read an amusing tidbit today, which is that in French ChatGPT is pronounced like "Cat, I farted" ("chat, j'ai peté"). Which is causing the French no end of hilarity.