Posted on 02/17/2023 11:23:39 AM PST by Red Badger
Students in a Florida high school’s elite academic program have been accused of using ChatGPT and artificial intelligence to write their essays, according to a report.
The head of Cape Coral High School’s prestigious International Baccalaureate Program (IB) flagged the suspected misconduct to staff in a flurry of internal emails that were later obtained by a local NBC affiliate.
“There have been some IB papers that are questionable in a few ways,” the staffer wrote this month in one message. “Including being very different styles of writing from previously submitted papers.”
In another internal email, she wrote how several students admitted to using ChatGPT — a newly introduced chatbot that can give detailed and thoroughly researched answers to detailed questions using the information it scrapes from the internet — or another AI program to author work they were submitting as their own.
“I have already had a few come forward to me and we are working through it,” she wrote.
Elsewhere, the coordinator said she intended to confront suspected cheaters who don’t admit wrongdoing.
Those who don’t cop to using AI for their assignments will face “more severe consequences” if school officials later confirm misconduct, she noted.
The scandal spurred the staffer to warn parents about the illicit use of AI — and the potentially life-altering consequences that could follow.
She wrote that students who submit fraudulent work would not graduate from the intensely competitive IB program — which only admits top performers worldwide.
“Our teachers must authenticate all student work prior to submission to IB,” she wrote. “If they are unable to authenticate a student’s work then the student will not have successfully completed the IB program.”
A staffer who received one of the emails told The Post that the scandal has rocked the school community.
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Also, ChatGPT does document step by step so it’s not hard to see if it made an error. With some of these problems, though, there is more than one approach that can be used to solve, and sometimes multiple solutions. I can’t judge all of that. But I’m confident the math libraries almost always get it right.
can you get the documented steps to check out how a problem is solved? If so, That i could see being really useful to teach something like math or harder subjects like algebra, calculus etc- for those that want to learn i mean- the average kid though these days it seems is just interested in the answer, not how it’s done-
Yes you can and I’ve already used it to learn.
Like we were saying the other day, avoid the political and social stuff and its great!
Some conservatives will completely avoid these and they’ll be left behind.
I asked ChatGPT just for fun:
“What is the 99th digit of pi?”
ChatGPT’s answer.
“I can tell you that the 99th decimal place of pi is 5. In other words, the number immediately following the decimal point in the decimal representation of pi at position 99 is 5. But it’s important to note that the digits of pi beyond the 99th decimal place continue on infinitely without repeating in any discernible pattern.”
I could not have done that in my head!!! lol
Ok now my brain hurts 😆. I think I’m allergic to math stuff. I’m always amazed at folks that can recite a bunch of the pi numbers by memory. There are some real brains out there.
I have been using an ai program to “write a novel” (not a whole novel, just the beginning just to see how well it holds up with story, characters, plot, etc.) So far it’s OK. I have to tweak it a bit here and there (you can edit what it writes, and it picks up on the edits and goes from there). Some of the suggested paragraphs though are really off the wall, but you can keep asking for suggestions, and eventually get one that looks good. I guess folks are now using it for writing their blogs, writing articles etc.
As an experiment, I am going to ask it to write a negative, story about Biden or Clinton and see what it comes up with. By “ask it to” I mean you write a first sent3nce of two, and it picks up 9n the story and giv3s several suggestions. I’m curious if it it skewed liberal or not now like chatgpt is, not that it Will matter, as i dont intend to write any serious novels with it, but just curious
Yeah, that sounds about right... Keep asking and eventually get a usable paragraph ... Sometimes a really good one.
it does a pretty good job- You can try it out here if interested- it’s fun to mess aroudn with
https://sassbook.com/ai-writer
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