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Succor borne every minute
Succor borne every minute
Earnest chats with objects are not so unusual. Mark “The Bird” Fidrych, the famed Detroit Tiger, used to stand on the pitching mound whispering to the baseball. Forky, the highly animate utensil from Toy Story 4, once posed deep questions about friendship to a ceramic mug. And many of us have made repeated queries of the Magic 8 Ball despite its limited set of randomly generated answers.
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·ftc.gov·
Succor borne every minute
Why the Hollywood strike matters to all of us
Why the Hollywood strike matters to all of us
Generative artificial intelligence is an existential labor problem, writes Ethan Marcotte, the author of "You Deserve a Tech Union." The labor strike in Hollywood has broad implications for Silicon Valley and beyond.
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·wbur.org·
Why the Hollywood strike matters to all of us
AI is taking the jobs of Kenyans who write essays for U.S. college students
AI is taking the jobs of Kenyans who write essays for U.S. college students
Ghostwriters say the meteoric rise of ChatGPT has coincided with a drop in income.
In January 2023, online learning platform Study surveyed more than 1,000 American students and over 100 educators. More than 89% of the students said they had used ChatGPT for help with a homework assignment. Nearly half admitted to using ChatGPT for an at-home test or quiz, 53% had used it to write an essay, and 22% had used it for outlining one.
While 17 states in the U.S. have banned contract cheating, it has not been a problem for freelancers in Kenya
Christopher Kanan, an associate professor in the department of computer science at the University of Rochester, has started giving in-person, in-class quizzes due to the popularity of ChatGPT
Others, like Ethan Mollick, an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, have chosen to take a more open approach to ChatGPT in class. “The truth is, I probably couldn’t have stopped them even if I didn’t require it,” he told NPR.
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·restofworld.org·
AI is taking the jobs of Kenyans who write essays for U.S. college students