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College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT::The growing number of students using the AI program ChatGPT as a shortcut in their coursework has led some college professors to reconsider their lesson plans for the upcoming fall semester.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The field of computer science decided what AI is. It has a very specific set of meanings and some rando on the Internet isn't going to upend decades of usage just because it doesn't fit their idea of what constitutes AI or because they think it's a marketing gimmick.

It's not. It's a very specific field in computer science that's been worked on since the 1950s at least.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The issue is to laypeople the term AI presents the idea of actual intelligence at a human level. Which computer science doesn't require for something to qualify as AI

Leads to lay people attributing more ability to the llm than they actually posses.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Agreed. That said, I am uncomfortable with the idea that policing language is the correct or only solution to the problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do the LLMs of the current craze meet that specific definition?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Fair enough then.