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AI and the disintegrating imagination

 
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ralfy
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 13, 2023 8:53 pm    Post subject: AI and the disintegrating imagination Reply with quote
"AI and the disintegrating imagination"

https://thecritic.co.uk/AI-and-the-disintegrating-imagination/

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It still has its flaws, but ChatGPT can already produce essays of the standard of a competent undergrad, invent plausible characters and scripts, explain a complex subject in simple terms using vivid metaphors, write code, confect outrage and, er, brag about pumpkins. All from a prompt of just a few words. Where it doesn’t quite yet work, a human can simply edit and tweak the generated content in a matter of seconds.

Clearly, this has huge implications for more or less any task involving words. It’s not so much that AI will end up taking every writing or teaching job on the planet (though it might well snaffle up a few). It’s that it’ll very quickly become common practice for humans to use AI to skip the vast majority of the writing (and research) process — allowing us, effectively, to stop having to think.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2023 10:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
My wife just ran a news story about someone who used AI to write a term paper, and the anti-plagiarism software schools use nowadays only caught ONE sentence as suspect. No sir, no thinking required in the 21st century! Sad

But then, I've always felt that the smart(er-than-most-users) phone was the death of thinking, reason and individuality anyway. Everyone I know who has one has an immediate Pavlovian response whenever it makes a noise Sad
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