Tara Maya's Tales

  This guy, an MD named Vinay Prasad, discusses how ChatGPT will impact medicine--and in particular, medical writing. I think that his analysis applies to writing in many fields, even creative writing.  To make it short, ChatGPt will help slow writers write faster, but it can't help writers without creative ideas write more creatively. It's great at smoothing along production of written material; it's not great at true innovation.  This might help reward innovation, as those with original ideas can get them out fast enough to compete with those who have no original ideas but used to rush re-hashed ideas to publication faster than their peers. Prassad also discusses how ChatGPT might change who becomes physicians. Keen intellect will be less important, because physicians will be able to use AI as a crutch. However, empathy might be more important! (He laughs cynically at that.) Will the analytical thinkers still be drawn to this area of medicine?  Perhaps not.  ...

AI generated art. An English teacher, Natalie Kay, wrote about the rising difficulty to “ The College Essay is Dead ” posed by ChatGPT and like programs. (Natalie Kay   Dec 9, 2022, https://medium.com/predict/ai-is-here-and-its-harming-future-generations-and-the-present-ones-cf40985b9bbf) This time last year, I was in the middle of my one-year stint as a high school English teacher. There were many reasons I left the job (the teacher shortage exists for a reason, it turns out), but undoubtedly one of the most significant ongoing issues I had was plagiarism. I tried it myself using ChatGPT, the AI program he discusses in the article. I used a prompt that I had given to my own students when I asked them to write essays on Romeo and Juliet. The quality and level of detail was similar to that of my students. Even if I had been suspicious of plagiarism, I never would have found a way to prove that a student didn’t write the essay. It passed in every way I know to look for...