OpenAI, a company founded in late 2020, has released an artificial intelligence tool that can generate essays, stories, and code. Within a week, it had more than a million users, and Microsoft invested $10 billion into OpenAI, valuing it at $29 billion. Other tech companies have followed suit, with Anthropic, Google, and Baidu all releasing their own AI tools. These tools are revolutionizing the way people interact with technology, and it’s clear that AI is here to stay.
ChatGPT marks the beginning of a new wave of AI that is set to disrupt education. According to a poll conducted by Stanford University’s student-run newspaper, 17% of students admitted to using ChatGPT on assignments or exams. ChatGPT and its kin can be a great service to learners everywhere, as it can generate well-formed sentences and paragraphs quickly, making writing that often takes time and effort much faster. This could revolutionize the way we teach and learn, allowing anyone to access well-crafted writing without the time and effort it usually takes.
The Good, Bad & Weird
ChatGPT has been wowing its users with its realistic conversations. Avani Rao, a sophomore in high school in California, has been using it to generate creative and silly responses. She even asked it to explain the addition in the voice of an evil villain. ChatGPT could be a great tool for students and others working in a second language or struggling with composing sentences, as it generates new, original material that is not technically plagiarism.
ChatGPT is an AI-powered chatbot that can help students improve their writing and grammar skills, explain challenging subjects, and generate personalized lesson plans, activities, and assessments. Educators can use ChatGPT to help students understand concepts better and to create personalized learning experiences. ChatGPT can also be used to generate lesson plans, activities, and assessments tailored to the needs and goals of individual students.
Xiaoming Zhai, an expert in science education at the University of Georgia in Athens, tested the tool and was impressed with how easy it was to use. However, there are some big problems with ChatGPT and other similar tools. They don’t pull facts from databases but rather are trained to generate new text that sounds natural. This can lead to mistakes, as the tool does not understand the language it is remixing.
ChatGPT, a chatbot created by Microsoft, has come under fire for providing inaccurate information. Casey Fiesler, an expert in the ethics of technology, has highlighted the pitfalls of ChatGPT in multiple TikTok videos. The chatbot’s training data comes from before September 2021, and it does not provide sources for its information. When asked for sources, it makes them up. Fiesler and Microsoft creator Zhai have both discovered this issue. ChatGPT is a useful tool, but users should be aware of its potential inaccuracies.
How ChatGPT Works
ChatGPT is a machine learning technology developed to help people communicate with computers. It uses two types of machine learning, a large language model based on an artificial neural network and a secondary type of machine learning. Emily M. Bender, a computational linguist at the University of Washington in Seattle, explains that ChatGPT does not reason, have ideas, or have thoughts. Instead, it finds statistical patterns in vast amounts of data. ChatGPT is a powerful tool that can help people communicate with computers in a more natural way.
OpenAI‘s GPT-3 is the largest language model ever released, containing 175 billion parameters. It was trained on a variety of text sources, including the internet, digitized books, academic journals, dialog transcripts, essays, exams and more. GPT-3 uses a multidimensional map to represent the relationships between words and phrases, allowing it to predict what words will come next in a sentence or phrase. This powerful language model is used to create AI tools that can help with tasks such as natural language processing, text generation, and more.
OpenAI has released a new version of its language model GPT-3.5 called InstructGPT. This version uses reinforcement learning with human feedback to improve accuracy and reduce bias. It also powers the freely available ChatGPT. Paying users receive answers powered by GPT-4, a bigger language model. OpenAI has also added safety rules to the model to prevent it from providing harmful information. However, this raises the question of whose values are programmed into the bot and what it is allowed to talk about.
While the company has not released its code or training data, it is encouraging users to experiment with the tool and provide feedback. This feedback is helping OpenAI to patch the tool and make it more capable and safe. Despite safety rules, some experimenters have gotten the bot to say biased or inappropriate things, which OpenAI is working to fix. ChatGPT is not a finished product and users are essentially working for OpenAI for free by providing feedback.
Tools To Check For Cheating
Originality.ai offers a tool that can help determine whether the text was composed by an AI, such as ChatGPT. In a test of 10,000 samples of texts composed by models based on GPT-3, the tool correctly identified 94 percent of them as AI-generated. When tested on a smaller set of 20 samples composed of ChatGPT and other models based on GPT-3 and GPT-3.5, the tool correctly identified 97 percent of them as AI-generated. This tool can help to quickly and accurately identify AI-generated text, allowing users to make informed decisions about the content they are consuming.
OpenAI has released a free tool to detect AI-generated writing, but it is not yet fully reliable. The company is working on adding watermarks to its AI text to tag the output as machine-generated. One possible approach is to have the AI rank many different words for each position and always choose the word ranked in third place as a fingerprint. As AI writing tools become more advanced, the tools to detect them must also improve, and watermarks may be the only way to determine true authorship.
ChatGPT: Revolutionizing Writing
Rao, a high school student, points out that AI can now generate essays and stories, which may be seen as a threat to education. However, educators have adapted to similar changes before, such as when Google made it possible to look up facts instantly. Teachers may have to rethink how they teach and test, and shift their point of view about what is considered cheating. This could involve coming up with teaching and testing materials that don’t rely as heavily on memorization. AI-generated essays and stories may be the next challenge for educators, but with the right adjustments, they can be overcome.
Teachers are increasingly limiting access to technology in order to prevent students from using AI. However, teaching students to write without AI’s help is still essential, as it allows students to demonstrate their thinking. AI can help students organize their thoughts, but it cannot think for them. Writing remains an important skill for students to develop, and teachers should focus on helping students develop their writing skills, rather than limiting access to technology.
Students can use AI tools like ChatGPT to help them compose their thoughts and craft essays or stories. Once students have learned basic math, they can lean on a calculator for help with more complex problems. Similarly, AI tools can be used to generate parts of a draft, and students can then revise and refine it from there. AI tools can be a great help for students, allowing them to focus on the creative aspects of writing while AI takes care of the technical aspects. AI tools can also help students save time and effort, allowing them to focus on other tasks.
Rao believes that AI will never replace stories and other texts generated by humans. He believes that people will always want to make their voices heard and that is why stories and texts exist. Rao is currently having to adapt his study to new technology and is having fun figuring out how to navigate. He is overwhelmed by the prospect but is determined to make it work. AI may be able to generate stories and texts, but it will never be able to replace the creativity and emotion that comes with stories and texts created by humans.
