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The End of High-School English
The Atlantic ^ | 12/09/2022 | Daniel Herman

Posted on 12/15/2022 9:31:38 AM PST by TexasKamaAina

The arrival of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a program that generates sophisticated text in response to any prompt you can imagine, may signal the end of writing assignments altogether—and maybe even the end of writing as a gatekeeper, a metric for intelligence, a teachable skill.

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Computers/Internet; Education
KEYWORDS: chatgpt
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To: subterfuge

Look at the people who follow Al Sharpton. They are so ignorant that they don’t realize that they put their own meaning to Sharpton’s meaningless words. Language has been, is, and will continue to be a divider in society. Presently, it divides the takers and the makers.


21 posted on 12/15/2022 11:12:30 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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To: Honorary Serb

You can’t fake education, especially not in face-to-face conversation.


22 posted on 12/15/2022 11:12:54 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: TexasKamaAina; EinNYC

So the way AI robots are going to take over is not by their superior intelligence but by making people lazier and stupid.


23 posted on 12/15/2022 11:22:42 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how thery control you. )
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To: Myrddin
People hired under those standards will cripple the hiring school. That leaves the "rejected" candidates available for hire by schools that want to succeed.

Exactly, and of course students that want to succeed will migrate to those schools and become segregated making them supremicists (because they are in fact, superior).

24 posted on 12/15/2022 11:25:22 AM PST by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: Honorary Serb

“NO “ap” can replace any of that!!!! PHOOEY to “aps”!!!!”

It’s “app” not “ap”. ;)


25 posted on 12/15/2022 11:26:19 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how thery control you. )
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To: Chode
so it will translate ubonics into English???

Well done!

You spelled ebonics incorrectly.

26 posted on 12/15/2022 11:27:35 AM PST by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: seowulf

“Just one question: is the AI bot a white supremacist too?”

Good question to ask it. I’m sure it wouldn’t lie to you.


27 posted on 12/15/2022 11:28:05 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how thery control you. )
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To: TexasKamaAina

That’s okay. Our society seems to be on a path to returning to communicating by emojis, grunts and hand movements.

Very few people seem to be able to compile a complete sentence or to express themselves in a coherent manner.


28 posted on 12/15/2022 11:51:32 AM PST by CFW
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To: TexasKamaAina

What’s actually happening is that we, as a culture, are reverting to the days when only the aristocracy were well educated, and the rest of the merchants and peasants knew only what they needed to do their job. The idea of giving everyone a gentleman’s education has apparently been rejected.


29 posted on 12/15/2022 12:23:00 PM PST by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: aquila48

Who cares!!!!


30 posted on 12/15/2022 12:54:40 PM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: A_perfect_lady

William Shakespeare was not an aristocrat!!

He not only spoke good English, but he set the standard for what good English was!!!!

His English is now pretty antiquated, but we still can understand it, and his plays are still performed today!!!!


31 posted on 12/15/2022 12:58:37 PM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: TexasKamaAina

The Africanization of the City States insures that those wanting a proper education must seek it beyond schools required to create equality by shifting the bell curve.

Bright high school freshmen in some are now bussed half a day to community colleges for classes in English and History etc that are no longer available in the schools tasked with teaching the uneducable.


32 posted on 12/15/2022 1:05:32 PM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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To: Honorary Serb

I was expecting more correctness from someone with a PhD...

Looks like you could benefit from chatGPT. ;)


33 posted on 12/15/2022 1:13:56 PM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how thery control you. )
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To: Texas resident

wonderful


34 posted on 12/15/2022 1:43:38 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: seowulf

there’s no correct spelling for a madeup word, it’s phonetic...


35 posted on 12/15/2022 1:44:55 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Old Yeller

Back years ago that comedian Trevor Noah had a bit about coming to America.

“And the black American! What a genius of vocabulary. Being able to bring a complex sentence into its purest form. Instead of ‘Do you know what I mean” it is now “Nomeen”.

Somewhere else in that bit he meets up with some black guy that changed his name to reflect his African roots - Nubjeme Akwana Tubot or something.

“So you really were Born in Africa! What’s your name?”

“Um - Trevor.”


36 posted on 12/15/2022 1:58:48 PM PST by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: seowulf
You spelled ebonics incorrectly.

My state can never find anyone interested in competing for "Miss Ebonics". There is something off-putting about wearing a sash that says, "Idaho".

37 posted on 12/15/2022 3:30:45 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: clee1
What difference does adherence to archaic styles and form do for the flavor, or flavour, of communication?

My favorite things are eating my family and not using commas.

It is important to be certain you have conveyed the message intended to the recipient.

I tell everyone I have the body of a 20 year old. Please don't share that with the police.

38 posted on 12/15/2022 3:34:55 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: Texas resident
My co-worker in San Diego had just purchased a very expensive home in the Scripps Ranch area of north San Diego. The property taxes were very high. She expected her child would enjoy a better quality of schooling with all that money she was paying. Not so. The school is bursting at the seams with children of illegals. There were so many in the class that desks overflowed into the hallway. Her child was one that was sitting in the hallway. Suffice to say, it wasn't long before she extracted her child and paid for private schooling. She didn't get a discount on her property taxes either. Full boat to pay for schools that were substandard AND full boat for the private school to compensate.
39 posted on 12/15/2022 3:40:41 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: EinNYC

It hit at 8 o’clock, just outside the 3 ring. Uh oh. Trouble brewing.


40 posted on 12/15/2022 3:47:32 PM PST by GingisK
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