Perhaps few would even notice if these positions disappeared because of the marvels of artificial intelligence and its developing capacity to write prose and even poetry.

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Perhaps few would even notice if these positions disappeared because of the marvels of artificial intelligence and its developing capacity to write prose and even poetry.

 

One such innovation, ChatGPT, a "chatbot" made available in its most recent incarnation in November by a San Francisco company called OpenAI, has been raising eyebrows in the educational community due to worries that students and learners may use it to do tasks.

A student at a US institution was allegedly discovered using ChatGPT to assist with essay writing in December.

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Academics must keep up with evolving technologies

 

The New York City Department of Education has prohibited access to ChatGPT on networked devices, demonstrating the degrees of worry generated by the technology.

 

Many academics throughout the world have serious reservations about how universities will grade students using ChatGPT and other comparable technology from other corporations.

 

Exams that are "open-book" become more troublesome since there is nothing prohibiting someone from passing an exam using this technology. ChatGPT is currently able to provide exam answers that are equivalent to those from students. To assess actual human knowledge rather than artificial intelligence, one would need to be extremely careful while constructing their questions.

 

Some believe that this is the last ditch effort to get colleges to take examinations seriously and switch back to the sort of tests they used to give in gyms.

 

Concerns regarding the future's required intellectual abilities are also raised by AI. Mental arithmetic was prized before calculators, but this is less the case today, according to Prof. Lee. This will alter how academic tests are conducted. An excellent college assessment tests the skills that are required in the workplace. 

 

Universities must follow suit in terms of the skills we help students build as we observe how new technologies impact the way we go about our business.

 

In connection with this, some analysts are concerned about how technology can impact pupils' cognitive development.

 

The process of writing research essays naturally improves one's analytical, critical thinking, communication, problem-solving, and collaborative abilities—important differentiators that should never, ever be compromised.

 

Rise of the cyber ghostwriter

 

After using AI to create basic news stories for several years, tools like ChatGPT may be used more frequently in journalism.

 

Since 2015, more than four million items have been sent to 100 news sites in many languages by United Robots, a Swedish startup that offers AI capacity. More complicated components may be used in AI applications in the future.

 

ChatGPT may offer a less expensive means of creating press releases and other content for the communications sectors, whether it be writing biographies or obituaries, or any contextual information around a news story, in addition to potentially eliminating certain journalistic employment.

 

Even those who read aloud for a living could experience change. According to reports, Apple released AI-narrated audiobooks this month (January 2023), but other businesses like Amazon are also interested in the industry.

 

Chatbots that use AI, however, do more than just eliminate jobs. Programs that use generative AI, like ChatGPT, have many advantages.

 

Customer experience and an organization's capacity to manage large amounts of inbound service inquiries immediately spring to mind as the first two. As an illustration, fact-checking and summarising scientific results AI is capable of creating false news, but it can also spot it.

 

There are limits to the textual material that AI can now produce.

 

There is no alternative for context, subtext, subtlety, empathy, and cultural awareness when developing creative works like screenplays, novels, poems, songs, or advertising taglines. These call for active participation rather than only learning.

 

Human inventiveness cannot be replaced

 

In several of these specialised fields, AI cannot easily replace what human employees uniquely bring to the table. The user disclaimer for ChatGPT explicitly mentions that the programme is biased and that it might not be up to date on global events beyond 2021.

You can't just dial in AI to compose the next big television smash drama or to design a prize-winning marketing strategy. The optimum use of tools like ChatGPT is to supplement one's work, using people acting in a supervisory capacity.

 

For instance, an author who runs into a block when narrating the story would find it useful to use ChatGPT in some places.

 

Many best-selling writers have developed plotlines in the later stages of their careers and then enlisted co-authors to complete the challenging process of writing up their novels. Perhaps famous authors will collaborate with AI programmes in the future.

 

It may not be as implausible as it first appears. The Day A Computer Writes A Novel, a book created in part by AI, advanced passed the preliminary judgement round for a literary award in Japan in 2016. Since then, AI technology has advanced significantly.