wockyman

wockyman t1_jd3hw95 wrote

Reply to comment by ThrowMeAway_DaddyPls in Timeline of Reddit eras [OC] by gkanor

Before comments, it was really just a news aggregator that felt a little more democratic. Like most of the internet in '06, more techy stuff made the page. Before subreddits, it felt like a single community of, well, nerds. I came over from Sensible Erection before the great Digg migration, and it was generally thought that the larger reddit got, the more fractured and low brow it seemed.

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wockyman t1_j66oado wrote

Reply to comment by w-g in Top French university bans use of ChatGPT to prevent plagiarism by Parking_Attitude_519

Oh I know it's not simple, but I do believe it's required. We're going to have to reconsider some of our long-held assumptions about what education is for and where assessment fits into that. ChatGPT does a C+ job if given a blind prompt. But if you talk to it for a while about a subject, get it to define and clarify first principles, it can do an A- job of producing meaningful analysis. It will blindly concoct flasehoods sometimes. It'll give you a list of general sources, but it won't cite. But I agree, we'll likely blow past those limitations in a couple of years or less. So when everyone can basically talk to the computer from Star Trek: TNG, we're going to have to change the curriculum. I expect to see more practical, project-based classes that result in a complex final product. Like a bunch of mini-dissertations.

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wockyman t1_j65hp6x wrote

Reply to comment by glonq in Top French university bans use of ChatGPT to prevent plagiarism by Parking_Attitude_519

It's a great brainstorming tool, and it's described some specifics of complicated subjects to me more clearly than my profs did. Universities need to adapt to this, not blanket ban it. Unfortunately (based on how poorly universities have adapted to other challenges in the last couple decades) it'll likely just be one more thing that drives them into the same category as newspapers and broadcast tv.

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wockyman t1_j5s0s9z wrote

Reply to Learning to lie: AI tools adept at creating disinformation by Ssider69

>Artificial intelligence is writing fiction

There's no difference between fiction and disinformation as far as the AI's concerned. It's not learning to lie, it's just proceeding from the premise it's given. If I tell ChatGPT to explain what it is in the style of a witch, it will. It's not lying to me about being a soothsayer. It's just doing what I asked it to. Also, pedantically, the AI's writing misinformation. Disinformation requires intent.

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