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The really fun part about this article isn't the article, nor is it Student's Guide to Writing with ChatGPT from OpenAI that inspired it. The article is just a bunch of points saying, essentially, "ChatGPT doesn't understand anything and makes mistakes, and you'll stunt your growth." No, it's when we get to the responses to criticisms in the 'further comments' section about three quarters of the way through. For example, we get consideration of the (valid criticism that) "the idea that ChatGPT has no understanding of anything is indeed debatable, depending on how you define 'understanding'." There's also a response generated by ChatGPT (on LinkedIn, so there's no point linking). There's also discussion of 'temperature', the formal definition of 'creativity' used by ChatGPT (cf Boltzmann machines), and the suggestion "Don't try to play it by saying: 'no, creativity is more than that!' If you can't formally define what this more is, then your ideas aren't clearly defined enough." Via Paul R. Pival.

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