A new AI chatbot can mimic human writing so well that it can imitate essays at every grade level – even graduate school – as well as write marketing, jokes, poems, and stories. The technology is threatening to upend education and more.
New AI Chatbot can fool people with its ability to write as well as humans
Last week, tech company OpenAI released an advanced chatbot named ChatGPT, and its features are nothing short of mind-blowing. It’s capable of engaging in conversations with humans and responds intelligently to questions seeking information, offers help with practical matters, and even engages in philosophical or political discussions, Slate reported.
However, what seems to have people stirred up the most is the ability of this artificial intelligence bot to mimic human writing at a level that demonstrates an advanced degree of proficiency.
ChatGPT can compose essays, write full-length articles, help you write computer code, compose marketing pieces, dream up fiction, write poems, tell jokes, and much more.
Educators worry AI bot will destroy the student essay
With ChatGPT’s advanced writing capabilities, one thing that is concerning educators about this AI chatbot is the likelihood that students will use it for essays and other writing assignments rather than composing their own work, Fox reported.
It’s not only the education field that is concerned. It could also be used by job applicants or workers. For example, journalists at New York magazine told it to write what they say turned out to be a “pretty decent” story, the New York Times reported.
Among ChatGPT’s features is the ability to automatically generate a school essay for any grade level – including graduate-level work. Not only can the AI write it, but it can include references as well, the Atlantic reported. One UK-based professor posted a sample online that he acknowledged was graduate-level B+ work. And although he said some passages read like filler, he acknowledged that most student essays do as well.
“The introduction of new artificial intelligence technologies into schools that enables students to auto-generate essays has the capacity to blow up our entire writing education curriculum,” said Peter Laffin, founder of Crush the College Essay and writing coach, in an interview with Fox News. “It’s going to be increasingly difficult for teachers to be able to tell the difference.”
“I do believe that students will be able to use this technology undetected to complete assignments,” Laffin continued. “The more easily available this is for younger students, the more problems this will create.”
“It may make us have to rethink it from the ground up, and that might ultimately be a good thing,” Laffin added.
