Recently, the AI chatbot ChatGPT has been making waves online due to the plethora of content it’s able to generate, leading many people to test out its capabilities and explore potential practical uses. Such technology, though, triggered fear and worry over job displacement and how it would affect the workforce.
The same sentiment was echoed by a user on Reddit recently when he discussed his professor’s plans for retirement the following year; it was attributed to the emergence of ChatGPT. His professor told the class that knowing that students could potentially “cheat and get away with it” weighed into his decision to leave the workforce, which received a flurry of responses from different perspectives.
One comment in particular implied that he was not “defeated” by the technology and instead decided to focus his energy on something else, rather than regulate cheating and academic integrity. Others stated that, even with the emergence of ChatGPT, academic gifting will remain present and competition will remain among the students. Above all, however, it is knowledge and not a degree or the number of questions one can answer that holds the actual power.
ChatGPT has a wide range of potential uses and while it can act as an AI chatbot and generate automated content, it still has not been able to conquer the knowledge a human can provide.
The launch of this AI chatbot has sparked a heated debate and will remain to be a topic of discussion until practical use cases become more prevalent.
ChatGPT is a revolotionary AI chatbot platform created by a company based out of San Francisco that has been at the forefront of developing AI-driven technologies for the past decade. The platform is designed to make it easier for users to generate contents for the web, automate tasks and engage in conversation — all with the help of an AI chatbot. The company is well revered in the tech industry and its technologies have been implemented and integrated by a number of other major companies.
As for the person mentioned in this article, he is a professor at an unknown university, who is planning to retire from teaching due to his concerns about the potential for his students to use AI chatbot technology to gain an advantage for their studies. In addition, he made note of the fact that he would much rather focus his energy on something else instead of spending time chasing students who are not making the effort to put in the actual work.
