ChatGPT Will End High-School English

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[–]Drewski 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It sounds to me like it's going to end a lot more. I hadn't realized how sophisticated OpenAI had gotten but I guess this stuff always creeps up on you.

[–]HiddenFox 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Do we have link without a sign up wall?

I guessing from the title and little I could read they are worried about students using this to plagiarize work as thier own. And while that will be somewhat of an issue, I think you will be able to tell from in class who is bullshitting. If you turn in shakespear quality essays but can't write two proper sentence on a piece of paper then I think we got an issue! Teachers will have to adapt.

College entry will be the same thing. It might get you in the door but in class will tell the tale.

[–]UncleWillard56 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's where actual teaching comes in. The idea isn't just to fulfill assignments, they're just practice, the idea is to actually teach students. That's the difference between a teacher and a proctor, to me. A lot of public school teachers fall into the latter. I was lucky enough to have some excellent English teachers. The instilled in me the desire to learn and a love of reading. They also taught me that while cheating and plagiarism may get you through the class, you're cheating only yourself. You miss out on an education in favor of just a grade.

[–]package 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah not really. Even 15+ years ago essays from around 7th grade and all the way through high school generally require sources, specifically to make sure students aren't just writing meaningless nonsense to fill the word/page count. GPT might be conversationally convincing, but we're still far off from AI that isn't just following grammar rules and stringing together related topics.

[–]In-the-clouds 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If you’re looking for historical analogues, this would be like the printing press, the steam drill, and the light bulb having a baby, and that baby having access to the entire corpus of human knowledge and understanding.

Light bulbs can have babies?

Or is the author suggesting babies can now have three parents?

Strange wording. I could not keep reading after that.

Also, I would think it was the steam engine, not drill, that was revolutionary.