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If all the students are using ChatGPT to do the assignments and the TA is using ChatGPT to grade them, maybe it's not cheating, maybe that's just how things are now.

It's like using a calculator for your math homework. You still need to understand the concepts, but the details can be offloaded to a machine. I think the difference is that the calculator is always correct, whereas ChatGPT... not so much.

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Yes that's why it's nothing like using a calculator. If the LLM had a concept of right or wrong or knew when it was wrong, that would be entirely different.

As it is you're getting a smeared average of every bit of similar code it was exposed to, likely wrong, inefficient and certainly not a good tool for learning at present. Hopefully they'll improve somehow.

We are now in a world where the common layman can get their hands on a GPT (a GPT that is predicted to be equivalent to a pHD in intelligence soon), instead of the person scrolling hugging face and churning out their custom built models.

I think in the future it'll be pretty interesting to see how this changes regular blue collar or secretarial work. Will the next future of startups be just fresh grads looking for B2B ideas that eliminate the common person?

It is both cheating, and also the way things are now. Also your calculator example is odd, because when you're learning the math that calculators can do, using a calculator is cheating. Nobody would say we should let third graders bring a calculator instead of learning to do arithmetic, it defeats the purpose of the learning.

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