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Corry Wang on X: "I guess GPT-3 is old news, but playing with OpenAI’s new chatbot is mindblowing. https://t.co/so1TuXMQB0 We’re witnessing the death of the college essay in realtime. Here’s the response to a prompt from one of my 200-level history classes at Amherst Solid A- work in 10 seconds"

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Corry Wang
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I guess GPT-3 is old news, but playing with OpenAI’s new chatbot is mindblowing. chat.openai.com/chat We’re witnessing the death of the college essay in realtime. Here’s the response to a prompt from one of my 200-level history classes at Amherst Solid A- work in 10 seconds
4:44 AM · Dec 1, 2022

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    Corry Wang
    @corry_wang
    I guess GPT-3 is old news, but playing with OpenAI’s new chatbot is mindblowing. chat.openai.com/chat We’re witnessing the death of the college essay in realtime. Here’s the response to a prompt from one of my 200-level history classes at Amherst Solid A- work in 10 seconds
    4:44 AM · Dec 1, 2022
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    tomorrowsgone
    @Tomorrows_Gone_
    Dec 1, 2022
    Feels like the world just sped up overnight. Learning from its short essays is a lot easier than googling.
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    Brehove
    @Brehove
    Dec 1, 2022
    College essays have been moving away from information dumping for some time. The OpenAI chat merely reinforces that trend. If anything, critical thinking and voice will become more important now.
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    THEE 🪷 DAWN
    @ListeningDawn
    Dec 1, 2022
    Perhaps you don’t remember much from that course, but the AI fails on key points. Culture is very important in Gellner’s notion of nationalism. The rise of print capitalism is not distinct from industrialization in Anderson’s work. This exercise highlights AI’s inability to…