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Friday, April 07, 2023

ChatGPT is going to change education, not destroy it

The narrative around cheating students doesn’t tell the whole story.

...This initial panic from the education sector was understandable. ChatGPT, available to the public via a web app, can answer questions and generate slick, well-structured blocks of text several thousand words long on almost any topic it is asked about, from string theory to Shakespeare. Each essay it produces is unique, even when it is given the same prompt again, and its authorship is (practically) impossible to spot. It looked as if ChatGPT would undermine the way we test what students have learned, a cornerstone of education. Full Story from MIT Technology Review

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