Have we arguably stepped into the singularity? As of last November, OpenAI's release of the ChatGPT language-model system has upended most everything in sight, and in particular, sent educators everywhere scrambling to deal with the ramifications. This chatbot can seemingly craft custom essays, reports, scientific papers, newspaper articles, programming code, and solutions to many (although not all) mathematical problems. Immediately, for free, and in ways almost no human can detect.
Here's a roundup of news stories that I may update in the future:
- Many students at Stanford report using ChatGPT for end-of-semester assignments and exams
- ChatGPT passes final exam in an MBA course at Wharton
- Professor at U. Toronto says, "you can no longer give take-home exams/homework"
- ChatGPT added as author to many academic papers
- Top AI conference forced to ban ChatGPT from writing science papers
- Scientists unable to tell when ChatGPT has written abstracts for academic papers
- More science journal publishers forced to ban use of ChatGPT on submitted papers
- Stack Overflow forced to ban ChatGPT answers from the site.
- ChatGPT considered an existential threat to Google.
- Microsoft plans to quickly bring ChatGPT features to Bing, Office, and Azure
- Kindle novelists start widely using ChatGPT
- NYC Department of Education bans use of ChatGPT in all schools
- CNET caught quietly using AI to write articles
- BuzzFeed (which broke story above) says it will use ChatGPT to write articles, stock jumps 150%.
- Member of Congress reads a speech written by ChatGPT into official record
- Judge in Columbia use ChatGPT to write a legal ruling
- ChatGPT has the fastest-growing user base of any application in history
- ChatGPT passes Google employment coding interview
Image courtesy Craiyon. :-)
