The artificial intelligence platform ChatGPTwhich burst onto the web late last year, threatened to change the rules of the game forever. school and academic worlds. More and more educational institutions are beginning to wonder how to deal with the revolution that implies the automatic elaboration of long, complex and well-founded texts based on a few indications.
With this tool, practical work and essays that usually take weeks of research are now generated in a matter of seconds. Just enter the place (not always available, given its high demand), type the search slogan and be surprised by the results: fiction and poetry stories, games created from scratch or solutions to mathematical problems.
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The platform is allowed even especulate on counterfactual issues, like what would have happened if Christopher Columbus had arrived in the United States in 2015. Politically correct, he warned that “he would be surprised to find out that the land he “discovered” was already inhabited by Native Americans, that the US is now a multicultural nation. with people from all over the world” and that today many consider him “a brutal conqueror”. Others have already tried, successfully, to ask him for the summary of a play in which Lady Di and Evita meet in heaven, or to rewrite the story of Ludwig van Beethoven as the inventor of the call me.
ChatGPT It belongs to the OpenAI laboratory, founded among others by Elon Musk and Reid Hoffmann (LinkedIn) and with a strong link with Microsoft, which this Monday announced an investment that would climb to USD 10 billion. The system was altered with 500 billion words extracted from texts published on the Internet, Wikipedia and entire collections of books.
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as you said the diary The vanguard, its irruption was foreseeable, but not in such a short term; that’s why she caught everyone off guard. The answers are so precise that in the vast majority of cases they seem to have been written by people.
Fascinated by the possibilities but worried about the risks, the teachers They walk an uncertain path. Some of the first reactions: going back to paper-and-pencil assessments or asking students that they write their texts in class, under strict supervision. Everything to avoid plagiarism, which the Royal Academy continues to define as “substantially copying other people’s works, giving them as their own”, with the salvation that this time there are no human victims. Perhaps the solution will come from the platform itself, which is already testing an option to detect if a text comes from itself or from a real person. For now, all that remains is to hope that it works.
JL
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