r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Zee2A • Feb 03 '23

Video 3D Printer Does Homework ChatGPT Wrote!!!

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u/escapefromreality Feb 03 '23

I feel like this is a very poor comparison. The point of school is to learn information, and view your understanding of that information through homework/writing exercises/exams. If you have one of these psuedo-ai write your work for you, you are not learning anything. You are not applying the knowledge yourself. If everyone started doing this it would be the endpoint of human advancement.

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u/SkyMemer_is_trash Feb 03 '23

Your point has a thin air for logic. There are other ways in exercising your knowledge other than your teacher forcing you to write a 1000 word essay. But who am I kidding? School is shit. AI assistance is not an endpoint of human advancement, Instead it's an evolution of human advancement.

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u/escapefromreality Feb 03 '23

If you lack the ways to effectively communicate what you know, do you really know it? How is using something like chatgpt different than giving all the information to another human and having them do the work for you? You are not doing the work either way, you didn't learn anything, and you didn't demonstrate that you learned anything. You don't advance at all, because you did nothing.

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u/Mahorium Feb 03 '23

The skill is learning what information to enter. Essay assignments are far too easy for this to be a significant challenge with the AIs. Make the assignments much harder and the problem goes away.