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called Tay. Tay soon began saying racist and xenophobic words. That forced the company to remove Tay from the Internet. Last year, Meta, Facebook’s parent company, took down a new chatbot for the same reasons.

Farewell to Homework?

After ChatGPT was released, schools were concerned about its effect on education. Some experts and educators have said that ChatGPT, and tools like it, could bring homework and assignments at home to an end. “We’re at the beginning of a societal transformation,” says Brian Christian. He’s a computer scientist

and author of The Alignment Problem, a book about ethical concerns about A.I. systems. “There’s going to be a bigger question here for businesses, but in the immediate term, for the education system, what’s the future of homework?” Public schools in New York City, Los Angeles, and Baltimore are among those that have banned access to ChatGPT on school computer networks. And some educators have already changed the way they do things in the classroom since ChatGPT was released. Antony Aumann is a professor at Northern Michigan University. He read a paper composed by a student who used ChatGPT. After he read it, Aumann changed essay writing for this semester. His students need to write first

drafts of their essays in the classroom. They must use monitors that restrict computer activity. In later drafts, students must explain each revision.

Tools to combat A.I.-

With reporting from Cade Metz, Kevin Roose, and Kalley Huang of The Times. generated plagiarism—and stop the use of ChatGPT in school—are been planned. Edward Tian, a Princeton University senior, spent part of his winter break creating GPTZero. GPTZero is an app that can say if a text was written by a human or A.I.

(see “Policing ChatGPT”). There’s no doubt that ChatGPT is a change in technology. Many have compared its release to the release of the first iPhone. That’s because of how it could change our lives. Experts everywhere—and ChatGPT too—say it will change the world in years to come. ChatGPT was asked to provide a

dramatic one-sentence final quote for a news article about the future of ChatGPT. Here’s what the A.I. chatbot had to say:

As ChatGPT evolves, it holds the power to shape our very reality, but it’s up to us to wield it with responsibility and caution, for the fate of humanity may depend on it.