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by appenz 1350 days ago
Wrong school? Our local schools (Silicon Valley, CA) encourage kids to use Wikipedia. Your school may just be a little behind the times.

The discussion now has moved to NLP models. GPT-3 models at this point can generate extremely high quality answers to complex questions. Is there still a point in asking a student to write a few paragraph on the definition and effect of acid rain if you can get that from OpenAI within seconds?
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Cyberdog 1350 days ago
The point isn't to have the kid write the essay about acid rain. The point is to teach the kid about acid rain and have them demonstrate an understanding of it. If the kid just turns in an AI-written essay that they may not have even read, they have learned nothing.
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PebblesRox 1350 days ago
An interesting exercise would be to have students generate the paragraph and then fact-check and edit it.
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