Can ChatGPT Write My Essay?
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- Опубліковано 4 січ 2023
- Lots of people are wondering how to write an essay with ChatGPT? Some people are speculating that ChatGPT means the end of homework or the end of essays. It's likely that most people will start using ChatGPT to write college essays or high school essays in the near future. But what are the consequences? What are the problems with Chat GPT? In this video I explore what AI chatbots like ChatGPT can do. It turns out Chat GPT is not as good at writing essays as it seems.
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Good video. Interesting for me as a teacher.
Tip for the editing: I find you edit too sharp at the end of sentences.
Great video! And I particularly liked the point you're making about copyrighted material. It does help explain a real limitation to ChatGPT's college-level essay writing.
But at the same time, ChatGPT is very good at aspects of essay writing that a majority of my students struggle with: sentence-to-sentence organization, paragraph-to-paragraph organization, topic sentences, transitional phrases to signal logical shifts, etc. It's not just good at following these principles in the prose it generates, but it's also good at these things when rewriting prose that's fed into it. So I'm genuinely curious how you feel about students using ChatGPT as a "tool" to help with these aspects of writing. If students get in the habit of using ChatGPT to organize their writing in this way--and by extension, outsource the organization of their thought--are they actually *learning* these skills (skills that, again, are not just about following conventions but about forming coherent thoughts)? It seems clear that ChatGPT can be used as a tool, but it's hard to predict how exactly our habituated use of that tool will change our thinking.
Thanks a lot! I'm glad you found it worthwhile. I really appreciate hearing from other profs, teachers, and educators on this. One of my big takeaways is that our feelings on the tool are going to be largely irrelevant. Students -- and professionals -- are going to start using this tool right away in large numbers. Banning its use on a syllabus, for example, will be pointless.
I suspect there will be some students who will simply ask it to write their essays and then hand in whatever the robot produces without editing or proofreading it. Teachers will have access to A.I. tools too and these kinds of forgeries will be easily spotted. ChatGPT, seems able to identify text that it produced itself for example (if you ask it to). Maybe this will lead to universities adopting policies about the amount of AI generated text that can appear in an assignment. Maybe other companies will develop and sell programs capable of determining "how much" of a piece of writing was generated by humans. Google has apparently put measures in place to surface "human produced" content over "A.I. produced content" so they seem able to do it.
The tougher questions, I think, are around "legitimate" uses of the tool. I agree with you that the tool is very good at basic thought organization. It uses those transitional phrases that set up ideas and advance arguments across paragraphs really well. It's hard to imagine students not finding this helpful as they proofread and edit their papers and try to organize their ideas. There are lots of students who have good ideas but struggle with the mechanics of writing clearly, and for people like them, this tool seems like a game-changer. And it's a bit hard to justify preventing them from using it, don't you think? I also agree that it's very hard to predict how ChatGPT is going to change writing pedagogy, but it seems clear to me that it's going to have a pretty major impact. I think we'll probably need some time to see how students use the program before we figure out its costs and benefits.
@@GreatBooksProf Right I agree it's hard to justify preventing students from using ChatGPT. I've already found ways of using it that are useful when composing expository writing. Simply having a machine that generates prose with such potential variety can stimulate the imagination in useful ways - not the imagination for ideas so much as the imagination for turns of phrase, sentence structure, etc. ChatGPT seems to be most valuable not as a replacement for writing but as an interlocutor. So yeah I agree it seems wrong to deny my students the use of the tool, even if many are going to use it as a replacement rather than as an interlocutor.
One of the other potential positives that will result from ChatGPT is that it'll force writing teachers to change the way they create writing assignments. It's going to be hard on teachers, but I'm pretty sure it's going to be good for students. The things that distinguish good writing from the best ChatGPT writing, I think, are getting clearer and clearer the more we experiment with the AI. And the clearer those things become to us as teachers, the more easily we can communicate those things to students. I've been compelled to play with ChatGPT in the classroom for these reasons during lessons on writing.
Thanks for the video, its insightful and can be used as a tool for students and professors.
You’re welcome! Thanks for watching, Jack.
Do you remember when CGI first came out in films? Things like Terminator 2 seemed amazing - so real we almost couldn’t believe our eyes. But very quickly, effects like ‘morphing’ or ‘bullet time’ became tedious - literally, dull and monotonous to watch and within a year, maybe two, seeing them on screen was more likely to provoke an involuntary eye roll than a gasp of amazement. I suspect that might have something to do with our brains adapting to digital approximations of the real to such a degree that they are quickly able to spot it, even if our conscious minds aren’t always aware that they have. The ‘Uncanny Valley Effect’ type thing. Maybe I’m being a little over-optimistic because I loathe the idea that writers may one day become obsolete, but I’d be willing to bet that any reader with reasonably eclectic tastes will be able to intuit when they are reading ersatz literature pretty quickly. Two or three weeks ago, it was AI art we were all talking about. I have a good friend who is a concept artist in film and he was really worried that he would soon be considered redundant. We then had about a week of every third person downloading the open source programme and then posting their ‘art’ (erm. Interpreted instructions.) on social media before everybody got bored with it and immediately skipped past ‘me as a cowboy spaceman’ on their feeds. Personally, I don’t even use ‘Grammarly’ because I fear it might make everything ‘samey’. What I used to fear was bad grammar, I now embrace as a charming idiosyncratic quirk 🤣 and would rather spend an hour agonising over a horribly overworked paragraph of my own than see a computer flatten all the emotion out of it. (still clogs into the machine time though, isn’t it?)
I love your perspective on this topic!
Thanks Jane! I'm not an AI expert, so I'm sure there are a lot of things about this technology I don't understand, but I've been thinking a lot about it lately. Seems like there are pretty profound implications for education and the law. At the same time, I think a lot of the claims about what this particular robot is capable of are exaggerated.
@@GreatBooksProf I tutor university students with their academic writing, and we’ve explored together the benefits (a jumping off place when they’re stuck) and limitations (lack of depth and critical analysis) of the chatbot. It’s also been interesting as an author and editor to watch the reaction in the publishing industry about the chatbot and art ai programs. So many are threatened and afraid, but I agree with you: you can’t artificially mimic the genius of individual creativity and imagination.
@@janealveyharris2433 I can see it being very popular with International students who understand the material and are good writers but struggle with some of the subtleties of English grammar.
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What a nice thing to say! Thanks Gobi. I really appreciate that. Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed it.
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"tell it to write an A paper stupid" 😂😂😂
Why didn’t I think of that!? 😂
AI is something I find both terrifying and exciting. I feel threatened by how good they can be, perhaps better than us. But I also can imagine a future where it becomes a cognitive tool that humans use in our evolution, just as storytelling and writing have been. If we could enhance our neurological processing through some blend of biochemistry and computer science (a “brain chip”) our technological prowess would certainly be improved. But what about our humanity? Would we become more ethical? Would our insights deepen? Would we regret it?
For as much as we have improved our technology and secured our biological needs, there sure are a lot of people who feel more unhappy than ever.
That’s part of why I cringe when I hear people say that STEM>Humanities.
Thanks for this, Adam. I find it worrying too. Mostly because a lot of tech types seem terribly naive about politics and uninformed about history. So, it's a bit dangerous to let Silicon Valley create these things and then "release them into the wild." I think we're going to start hearing about AI regulation very soon. We'll probably even hear about international treaties on the use of AI.
Everyone is very excited about using these tools to write blog posts and apps, but what's to stop someone from using them to create a computer virus or a bomb?
And so, the great AI pirate era starts. You can download a free alternative, you can feed it with any repository, and many of my generation are sons of the sea.
I wonder how long will it take for the next Spotify, but it's an ai feed on IEEE, nature, etc.
I think Napster and Spotify are useful comparisons for this tech. There’s a high probability this tech will be legitimized and “domesticated” pretty quickly for a subscription fee.
However, I also think AI is going to get regulated pretty heavily and pretty soon. It seems like there’s just too much potential for bad actors to do bad things, say, create computer viruses, or fake news articles. Will that limit its capabilities?
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