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The Indicator from Planet Money

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🗓️ 18 January 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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A chatbot that can do your homework for you? Sounds like every student's dream. But one college senior is building an app to call out the fakes. For more HUMAN WRITTEN content like this, subscribe to Planet Money's weekly newsletter.

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0:00.0	NPR.
0:07.0	What if in high school, instead of spending hours working on an essay about the American
0:16.7	Revolution or I don't know like catcher in the rye, you could just have a machine do
0:21.4	it.
0:22.4	It's basically every kid's dream.
0:24.9	And now there's a new artificial intelligence chatbot that's making that dream a reality.
0:30.8	You've probably heard about this technology.
0:32.5	It's called chat GPT and it could do more than just do your homework.
0:36.4	It could write code for a website, formulate a movie pitch, help you with your mental
0:41.0	health, even haggle with Comcast to lower your bill.
0:44.6	All you have to do is give it a prompt like write me a college essay about the Civil War.
0:49.9	And within seconds, boom, you have a somewhat decent essay about the Civil War.
0:54.8	And while kids around the world may be celebrating like the end of homework, this technology
1:00.4	raises some serious questions for our education system.
1:03.9	Like what is the point of learning to write essays at school when AI can now do that for
1:09.1	us?
1:10.1	I'm Greg Rizalski.
1:11.9	And I'm Emma Peasley.
1:12.9	And we're taking over the show to talk about a new technology that not too long ago might
1:18.0	have seemed like science fiction.
1:20.6	Today on the indicator how the AI revolution could reshape everything from education to
1:26.3	how we communicate with each other.
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