The summer is over, schools are back, and the data is in: ChatGPT is mainly a tool for cheating on homework.::ChatGPT traffic dropped when summer began and schools closed. Now students are back, and they’re using the AI tool again more.

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      My senior secondary board believes that students. should spend 6 hours a week per subject on top of the hours they are physicians in class. It is insane

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    Clearly an article written to fit a headline rather than the other way around. They talk about use in education settings as a sign that the use cases are limited, despite accounting for only a 12% increase.

    In other news, pencil use is up 100% in the last month, signaling that pencils have limited use cases and are only good for cheating on homework.

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      Bro the capability of a pencil is a far better medium to expresses concepts. One could argue that a pencils ability to express shades of grey exceeds the capability of the pen. In some ways the pen has an effect of finality.

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    In many countries, schools only care about grades. I was pretty good at getting good grades by understanding what will be tested and minimizing the effort to get there. I would’ve totally used ChatGPT to do my homework.

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    At work when I write certain emails or code snippets I’ll paste them into ChatGPT and ask it to make the email sound “more professional” or “optimize this code.” ChatGPT also talks to me like SHODAN from System Shock 😆

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      I hope you know what you’re doing. That’s a good way to share company secrets with outsiders, also it’s uncertain whether you’re even legally allowed to use the resulting code.

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        I appreciate your concern, but no worries. The company code is structured text as I program B&R PLCs and ChatGPT is pretty useless (so far) for that kind of code. The python code I paste in is more for personal hobbies.

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          In a similar industry. Friend used it to write Wireshark dissectors for their interface between the PLC and software system. I haven’t used ChatGTP yet, but for certain boiler plate tasks it might be useful. I used to dump tag lists and generate ladder logic with some regex and python to fix the rung numbering within Notepad++. Dumb stuff nobody wants to do by hand.

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        Prompt better. I use it extensively and the code I get is usually a good start. But it can’t do anything.

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    Handwritten assignments are going to make a comeback. It’s hard to cheat through an essay you have to write on the spot.

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      Yeah I mean just make homework worthless and the cams everything.

      Pretty simple. College professors have been doing this forever

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    I feel this is a political issue on the understanding of ai. It is a powerful tool and all powerful tools garner a certain amount of fear. Ultimately the protests against ai will fail and if history has taught us anything that protesting efficiency will be futile.

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    I’m not sure whether or not to call my daughter lucky that she couldn’t get away with this on her school-issued Chromebook, but it’s probably for the best.

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    Egh Moody adults are ignorant to how it works, how to prompt well, and are scared of using it at work.

    Kids are going to gobble that shit up. It’s being used for cheating until the kids get into the workforce.

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      If anything, people who like chatGPT are the ones ignorant of how it works (spoiler: it doesn’t).

      And kids with their understanding of technology being limited to youtube and tiktok have no clue about what an AI is. They see it, like most people, as a magic black box that is incredibly smart. Apart from being a black box, none of that is true.