Princeton Student Develops App to Expose Cheaters Using A.I.
As recently reported, a program called ChatGPT can make writing essays or application letters easy. All you need to do is give it some basic info and its artificial intelligence writes the essay for you. My son’s English class discussed the technology in class and his teacher logged on to ChatGPT.com to see how well it really works. According to my son and his friends the teacher’s jaw dropped, exclaimed, “Oh s—,“ and said, “Wow, that’s really, really good.” So teachers are scrambling to find ways to detect if their student’s papers were actually written by them or by
However, one Princeton University student has developed an app that can determine with considerable accuracy whether or not an essay is written by A.I. Less than a month ago, Edward Tian, a 22-year-old Princeton University student developed the app. Tian told CBS News that “more than 20,000 users have demoed the beta version of GPTZero, and that teachers from around the world have reached out to thank him for making their jobs easier.” His homepage says, “GPTZero, Humans Deserve to Know the Truth.”
Nevertheless, many experts feel that this AI technology will be commonplace in the very near future. In fact, one expert says it will someday soon be generating most of what you read online, just like what you’re reading right now.
In an article in Yahoo! Finance, adviser, speaker, and Artificial Intelligence thought leader Nina Schick says “I think we might reach 90% of online content generated by AI by 2025, so this technology is exponential. I believe that the majority of digital content is going to start to be produced by AI. You see ChatGPT, but there are a whole plethora of other platforms and applications that are coming up.” She’s talking about similar technology that’s being developed by other companies like Google.
But with the same innovation, Shick says, a company could plug in some details about, say, a music act or a new model of car, and the robot mind would do the rest, generating an article about the subject without the need to hire a writer or create social media posts without any human input.
“What generative AI can do, essentially, is create new things that would have thus far been seen as unique to human intelligence or creativity,” Shick said. “Generative AI can create across all media, so text, video, audio, pictures – every digital medium can be powered by generative AI.”