Just days after OpenAI dropped ChatGPT in late November 2022, the chatbot was broadly denounced as a free essay-writing, test-taking instrument that made it laughably simple to cheat.
Schools swiftly blocked entry to OpenAI’s web site, whereas a number of main universities issued statements that warned college students towards utilizing the chatbot to cheat.
This preliminary panic was comprehensible. ChatGPT can reply questions and generate slick, well-structured textual content on nearly any subject, from string idea to Shakespeare. But three months on, the outlook is quite a bit much less bleak. Read the total story.
—Will Douglas Heaven
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These deep-sea “potatoes” may very well be the way forward for mining for renewable power
There’s been rising buzz within the information about mining within the deep ocean these days. Proponents say sure spots on the ocean flooring may very well be a key supply of a number of the metals we have to construct batteries and different know-how that’s essential for addressing local weather change.
But whether or not business efforts ought to go forward is a supply of rising controversy: there’s numerous uncertainty about how they may have an effect on ecosystems, and numerous politics at play.