ChatGPT and the End of Writing
Unsung Science
CBS News
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In early 2023 ChatGPT blew up the internet. It’s an AI app that can create any piece of writing you ask for. Poems, homework, lyrics, essays, outlines, recipes, interview questions, and even code. All are indistinguishable from something written by a person, all instantaneous and free.
In schools, cheaters began cheating immediately. Educators were horrified, calling it the end of homework, college-entrance essays, and even writing skills. New York City schools banned it. Experts called it a potential factory for misinformation (ChatGPT routinely writes authoritative-sounding articles that are simply wrong). Everyone agrees that ChatGPT is disruptive. But how do we keep the good—and prevent the terrifying?
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| 0:00.0 | CHAT GPT may have the clonkiest, least memorable name and software history, but once you've |
| 0:11.9 | seen it, oh, it's memorable all right. |
| 0:15.3 | Look, this machine can generate this piece of writing that's as good as what someone |
| 0:20.2 | would write it themselves could generate, and that seems exciting and rather astonishing |
| 0:25.3 | in many ways. |
| 0:26.3 | Think of it as turbo-charging your job as a lawyer or a doctor or a writer or writing |
| 0:31.6 | songs or creating art, doing it better than you ever could have before. |
| 0:35.8 | I think that we should be really terrified of this whole thing. |
| 0:39.8 | I'm David Pogue, and this is Unsung Science. |
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