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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]AI has issues with general things. It's been 15 years since the last spewing of AI taking over coding from humans.

Actually if anything AI helps programers from making stupid mistakes but that's it at least for now.

So plenty of CS jobs around.[/quote]

You clearly haven't been following the latest AI developments. But I agree that for the next few years, CS jobs are safe. Which poses a problem for the kids in undergrad CS right now.
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Have you? writing based humanity majors seem to be in great danger on top of already mediocre job prospects
ChatGPT can write very well.

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Different person here.  Only someone who does not write well would say the ChatGPT writes “very well.”  It’s formulaic garbage.  I grant you that it will get better, but it’s not replacing a good writer right now.[/quote]

How is it that DCUM is filled with Shakespeares?  There is an OpEd today in the Washington Post today from a philosophy professor at University of Wisconsin:

"[i]This artificial-intelligence tool excels at producing grammatical and even insightful essays — just what we’re hoping to see from our undergraduates. How good is it, really? A friend asked ChatGPT to write an essay about “multiple realization.” This is an important topic in the course I teach on the philosophy of mind, having to do with the possibility that minds might be constructed in ways other than our own brains. The essay ran shorter than the assigned word count, but I would have given it an A grade. Apparently ChatGPT is good enough to create an A-level paper on a topic that’s hardly mainstream."[/i][b][/quote]

You pull out a few sentences to completely misstate the point of the OpEd. It was called "Why I'm not worried about my students using ChatGPT!"  [/quote]

Hmmm...you obviously didn't read the OpEd so who is the dips**t?  He is not worried because he just decided it is impossible to monitor cheaters and he doesn't care if 25% of his class gets an A using ChatGPT because he knows the other 75% will learn how to write.  He states over and over that in fact ChatGPT is excellent...and will only get better.  He will award an A to excellent papers and not spend anytime determining the provenance.

You can decide this is a cop-out by a professor...and hopefully he doesn't curve his class.[/quote]

All it does is democratize cheating so anyone can afford it. Before only rich kids could afford to hire someone to write their papers for them. [/quote]

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