Posted on 12/31/2022 4:33:58 AM PST by Salman
As word of students using AI to automatically complete essays continues to spread, some lecturers are beginning to rethink how they should teach their pupils to write.
Writing is a difficult task to do well. The best novelists and poets write furiously, dedicating their lives to mastering their craft. The creative process of stringing together words to communicate thoughts is often viewed as something complex, mysterious, and unmistakably human. No wonder people are fascinated by machines that can write too.
Unlike humans, language models don't procrastinate and create content instantly with a little guidance. All you need to do is type a short description, or prompt, instructing the model on what it needs to produce, and it'll generate a text output in seconds. So it should come as no surprise students are now beginning use these tools to complete school work.
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Although AI can generate text with perfect spelling, great grammar and syntax, the content often isn't that good beyond a few paragraphs. The writing becomes less coherent over time with no logical train of thought to follow. Language models fail to get their facts right – meaning quotes, dates, and ideas are likely false. Students will have to inspect the writing closely and correct mistakes for their work to be convincing.
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I guess they could be required to write them in class, in pen and ink, with no phones in sight.
OTOH, writing essays on intersectional trans feminism is perhaps a job best left to machines.
These are the college turds who want us taxpayers to buy diplomas for them.
Well, there is a problem.
My grandson, a high school student with excellent grades in his course work can’t write worth a damn. He writes with his lap top and maybe his phone. Such a device is ever present
As a matter of fact, he can’t write cursive at all that I can tell.
Just like the old days
That’s penmanship
The article is talking about content
I used to write for a living (now retired) and I remember thinking early on that if you can say a coherent sentence, you can write a coherent sentence.
Makes sense, university students are to stupid to do anything on their own thanks to the dumbing down of education.
I guess the students have no right to complain when the profs start using AI to grade their essays and term papers.
“As a matter of fact, he can’t write cursive at all that I can tell.”
I’ve heard that cursive hasn’t been taught in school for many years. One more way to dumb down the population.
I wrote an AI program for democrat politicians and media pundits.
It was really easy to write.
It just inserts “racism” and “racist” randomly in a string of otherwise incoherent sentences.
What bot do they need to wipe their hind end?
As on topic as Reddit.
They used to teach “English composition” in high school.
It not only taught how to write, but indirectly, how to edit.
At the start of each class, students would take out a lined piece of paper and a pen, then write a one page essay on a subject dictated by the teacher. After a month or two, students would use plain, unlined paper for their essays.
At the end of the class, the papers would be collected, and the teacher would use the next period to edit them, with proper editing notation, while the next class was writing.
It was an efficient way of doing things and taught students how to write on a deadline.
It isn't creating anything.
You’d be amazed at the papers that have cut and paste throughout the papers. The plagerize machine that every paper goes through finds them. Immediate “F” on the paper.
We bought a grandson a telescope, and included a card. He glanced at the card, and closed it. I asked, aren’t you going to read it? He very quietly said, I can’t read cursive, grampa.
Pretty soon we will see “Beast selling author” turns out to be ai
What university students? Was the article written by a bot? Sure looks to be the case.
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