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The summer is over, schools are back, and the data is in: ChatGPT is mainly a tool for cheating on homework.
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this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2023
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“You can use AI such as ChatGPT or Copilot on your senior projects, just make sure the code works, you understand it enough to document it, and your sponsor is ok with external code use” - paraphrased from my Software Engineering department head about our senior capstone projects.
“I have the kids ask ChatGPT for an essay and then have the (8th grade) kids treat it like a rough draft so they have practice editing it” - my English teacher Father
The best way to handle it is to embrace and use it to augment your skills, much like calculators in math classes.
A calculator calculates. An AI bullshits.
The only thing ChatGPT can actually do might be marketing speeches, since they are nonsensical to start with and made by things pretending to be humans.
It's arguable that most of what we generate is mostly vague partially inaccurate bullshit.
Unless you are a rock, your brain processes information to extract meaning from it. AIs don't.