Ejercicio (3) Grupo A - 6 · Inglés PAU Canarias Julio (2) 2023

*AI ChatGPT amazes professors with essay-writing skills and usability

Professors, programmers and journalists could all be out of a job in just a few years, after ChatGPT, from

the Elon Musk-founded OpenAI foundation, stunned spectators with its writing ability, proficiency at

complex tasks, and ease of use.

The system, called ChatGPT, is the latest evolution of the GPT family of text-generating AIs. Two years

5 ago, the team’s previous AI, GPT3, was able to generate an opinion article for the Guardian newspaper, and

now the new ChatGPT has significant further capabilities.

In the days since it was released, professors have generated responses to exam questions that they say would

result in top marks if they were written by a student.

Dan Gillmor, a professor in journalism at Arizona State University, asked the AI to carry out one of the

10 assignments he gives his students: writing a letter to a relative giving advice about online security and

privacy. The chatbot advised: “If you’re unsure about the legitimacy of a website or email, you can do a

quick search to see if others have reported it as being a scam.”

“I would have given this a good grade,” Professor Gillmor said. “Universities have some very serious issues

to confront.”

15 OpenAI said the new AI was created with a focus on ease of use. “The dialogue format makes it possible

for ChatGPT to answer follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect ideas, and reject

inappropriate requests,” OpenAI said in an online post announcing the release of the software.

Unlike previous AI from the company, ChatGPT has been released for anyone to use, for free, during a

“feedback” period. This information would help the company to improve the final version of the tool.

20 ChatGPT is good at self-censoring, and at realising when it is being asked an impossible question. For

example, it was asked to describe what happened when Columbus arrived in America in 2015. Older models

would most likely have presented an entirely fictitious account, but the new ChatGPT recognises the false

information and warns that any answer would be fictional.

The bot is also capable of refusing to answer questions altogether. Ask it for advice on stealing a car, for

25 example, and the bot will say that “stealing a car is a serious crime that can have severe consequences”, and

instead gives alternatives such as “using public transportation”.

Fragment adapted from The Guardian, December 2022

* AI: Artificial Intelligence

6. WRITE a composition of about 120-150 words on the following topic (3 points):

What are the advantages and disadvantages of using ChatGPT to do your homework?