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<blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 8937658" data-attributes="member: 7023840"><p>I am going to push back on this, slightly. The fact that ChatGPT can currently write a decent high school essay doesn't mean that it wasn't a special skill - just like the fact that AI Art programs can make cool art doesn't mean that making cool art ... isn't a special skill.</p><p></p><p>Mastering the basics of clear communication in the form of high school writing is difficult, and not every student does that. Doing it at the college level? Even harder.</p><p></p><p>In my own experience, I deal with people that, theoretically, have gone through high school AND college AND have learned to write in law school as well (at a minimum, the IRAC method), and I can assure you that there are a ton of bad writers out there. Many of them I wouldn't trust to write a clear high school essay.</p><p></p><p>All of which is to say- I think we might be misunderstanding what is transformative about this. It's not just writing a high school essay (although that is what is getting the current coverage). Coding. Drink recipes. Creating adventures. Sure, it's based on what <em>people</em> have done before ... but that's what people do too.</p><p></p><p>At a fundamental level, I think we might not be fully appreciating this, because we keep viewing this in terms of the past. "Oh, I guess chess isn't as special as we assumed because a computer can beat us at it."</p><p></p><p>Let's try this out- imagine that you believe that, "Writing prompts that make cool stuff come forth from an AI," is, in fact, the "special skill" that humans have. Now, imagine we have ten years of people writing prompts to AIs, and we use that as the corpus to train an AI to ... write prompts for AIs.</p><p></p><p></p><p><em>What is the special skill? </em>Anyway, not to get dystopian (at all!), because I think this is amazingly cool, but I truly think we are going to see some transformative effects in the next decade that we have trouble imagining, of the type that makes the changes from the internet look like small potatoes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snarf Zagyg, post: 8937658, member: 7023840"] I am going to push back on this, slightly. The fact that ChatGPT can currently write a decent high school essay doesn't mean that it wasn't a special skill - just like the fact that AI Art programs can make cool art doesn't mean that making cool art ... isn't a special skill. Mastering the basics of clear communication in the form of high school writing is difficult, and not every student does that. Doing it at the college level? Even harder. In my own experience, I deal with people that, theoretically, have gone through high school AND college AND have learned to write in law school as well (at a minimum, the IRAC method), and I can assure you that there are a ton of bad writers out there. Many of them I wouldn't trust to write a clear high school essay. All of which is to say- I think we might be misunderstanding what is transformative about this. It's not just writing a high school essay (although that is what is getting the current coverage). Coding. Drink recipes. Creating adventures. Sure, it's based on what [I]people[/I] have done before ... but that's what people do too. At a fundamental level, I think we might not be fully appreciating this, because we keep viewing this in terms of the past. "Oh, I guess chess isn't as special as we assumed because a computer can beat us at it." Let's try this out- imagine that you believe that, "Writing prompts that make cool stuff come forth from an AI," is, in fact, the "special skill" that humans have. Now, imagine we have ten years of people writing prompts to AIs, and we use that as the corpus to train an AI to ... write prompts for AIs. [I]What is the special skill? [/I]Anyway, not to get dystopian (at all!), because I think this is amazingly cool, but I truly think we are going to see some transformative effects in the next decade that we have trouble imagining, of the type that makes the changes from the internet look like small potatoes. [/QUOTE]
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