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Don’t mistake scepticism for a closed mind.

They did all come up with “sound wave” though. So okay. Cool. Now you just have to make sure not one student in your group has come up with the same or too similar a definition. Or of course, that if it’s a nationally marked piece of coursework or module, not too many people in the U.K. have...

But you wouldn’t know that the other students hadn’t done similar. Every definition that was returned in that example mentioned slinky’s without being prompted. So you’d have to start going down the road of instructing it not to mention slinky’s etc. Seems like it’d be easier to do one’s own...

Maybe. I haven’t said I don’t care about these sort of things. Quite the opposite in fact. Neither have I said it’s useless but so far the examples you have offered up all seem pretty near useless. ie schoolwork. While I understand some people are very keen on the benefits of these advances...

I’m sure a geography teacher would spot 30 essays mentioning slinkys? I guess a way to make sure all of the students using this software aren’t all handing in the same essay is for all the students to cross reference their essays before handing them in. Which seems pretty time consuming.

I haven’t said it’s useless. Try and be accurate in your arguments. Bending of the truth suggest you have a weak argument. Comparing Tolkien to a bot that has “written” about Cheeto dust? I see.

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It has “created” gibberish. No wonder you like it :)

It’s concerning, the last sentence. If it does get to the stage where the resulting essay could fool a teacher, we’d be raising a generation of dunder-heads. How a student could make the essay significantly different to their fellow students would be interesting to see. A whole class handing...

Teaching has advanced hugely in the last three decades. It’s definitely no longer learning by rote or regurgitating the same dusty old text as in previous generations. But as I say, whether this will be recognised is in doubt . Either way, chatbots will be little more than a way to assist...

It dredges (searches the internet) looking for phrases that relate to what you have asked it. Then it pastes it together and creates something sort of almost like what you asked for.

So far, the only examples I can see of its application are nothing more phrase dredging from the internet to create a pretty shoddy approximation of something it would take a human longer to do. And do it right. I remember the nerds getting their nuts all twisted in excitement when William...

Nerds getting all excited about themselves. Again. The human spirit will outlive any of this nonsense. Would you be happy with an algorithm that predicted and played out every match of the season and sent you an email with the results? No. This is why things like this have such limited...

I am being glib. I get it. But with results like that, we have some way to go before we start worrying. I have no doubt a future version of this will perform some jobs and make human workers obsolete. However, we don’t need to worry about a judgment day scenario just yet. Not that that’s...

Generative Pre-trained Transformer AKA - Decepticons.

In theory, no. Teaching is about so much more than just regurgitating facts. Whether the British government realises that is another thing entirely.

I think that illustrates my point. If I didn’t know that had been written by a bot, I’d have guessed at a 7-8 yr old or a bobble-hatter :) Nothing to get too excited about.

Really not much different to Sinjab Banjeer in a call centre in Jaipur telling me his name is Bob from Ferring and he supports Brighton, before going on to not help me in any way whatsoever. It’s just an advance on technology that’s been used for over a decade now. I wouldn’t worry too much...