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ChatGPT Use in the Classroom
Is ChatGPT the greatest thing since sliced bread for education and research or an instrument for cheating? Is it a tool for learning or a way towards ignorance and illiteracy? Is it an indication of progress in contemporary society with endless opportunities for automation or one of the early signs of devaluation for student-acquired knowledge…
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ChatGPT, War, and Diplomacy
There is a great deal of discussion about the use of AI and Machine Learning in intelligence analysis, war planning, national security policy-making and beyond. Yet before these tools are put in place it behooves us to understand the way in which AI thinks and upon what data sources it builds its “findings” and…
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ChatGPT on AI Common Sense, Rationality, and Morality
I held a chat conversation with OpenAI’s ChatGPT to see in one small instance how it responded to questions pertaining to common sense, rationality, and morality. I focused on these three areas in particular because they are generally seen as “human” attributes of intelligence. These “human” qualities extend well beyond Alan Turing’s paper “Computing…