№ 670. Waking Up to Binary Dreams 2023

Max Siedentopf

 

There are many challenges that ChatGPT will bring, particularly when it comes to education, plagiarism, and professional and academic integrity, Altman acknowledged.

“I get why educators feel the way they feel about this, and probably this is just a preview of what we're going to see in a lot of other areas,” Altman said.

OpenAI is already exploring ways in which it can help teachers detect the output of any generative AI like ChatGPT, such as watermarking technologies, but only because “it is important for the transition,” he said.

He added that generative AI is something we just need to adapt to.

“We adapted to calculators and changed what we tested for in math classes. I imagine this is a more extreme version of that, no doubt. But also the benefits of it are more extreme as well,” he said.

“It's an evolving world, and we'll all adapt, and I think be better off for it. We won't want to go back,” he added.

“Before Google came along, there were a bunch of things that we learned, like memorising facts was really important, and that changed. And now I think learning will change again and we'll probably adapt faster than we think”.

 

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