Asking students to prove to the reader they are not a robot should greatly improve the quality of student writing and the lives of those paid to read it, writes Tucsonan Brent Harold.
The AI future has been much in the news recently, both promise and threat. Indications are that we are becoming a little less amused by the Silicon Valley business plan of “move fast and break things” as we come to realize that it’s the meaning of human life itself as we know it that could get broken.
People are also reading… Whatever we think of the likelihood of that disturbing scenario, what has set off the current surge of misgivings is that ChatGPT has gone in months from grade school performance to scoring in the 90th percentile on lawyers’ bar exams. AI has taken a big leap toward not only catching up with human intelligence but surpassing it.
Full disclosure: I admit to taking pride in daring once in a while to find my way to the Home Depot without the help of Siri. In this I like to think that I am like John Henry, that celebrated steel-drivin’ man of the famous folk song. John Henry, though he “ain’t nothing but a man,” is determined to outdrill the newfangled steam drilling machine brought in to replace him.
AI can never give us what we want from human writing simply because, not being human, it lacks that basic feature of an embodied connection to the world. What we should be learning from the chatbot crisis is that chatbot writing can be better in some sense without being as meaningful as human writing. It seems likely that if readers don’t at first have the ability to discriminate between what we will see as real from fake writing, we will develop it.
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