It’s possible that Marche was off a bit in his timing. They are already dealing with a humanities in crisis. Teachers are already some of the most overworked, underpaid people in the world. “Going by my experience as a former Shakespeare professor, I figure it will take 10 years for academia to face this new reality: two years for the students to figure out the tech, three more years for the professors to recognize that students are using the tech, and then five years for university administrators to decide what, if anything, to do about it. “Nobody is prepared for how AI will transform academia,” Stephen Marche writes in “The College Essay Is Dead,” published last month. Now that ChatGPT can churn out mediocre and (mostly) correct writing, the era of the student essay has been declared officially over. It not only raps like Snoop Dogg and rhymes like Nick Cave (to the songwriter’s great chagrin), but also solves complex mathematical problems and writes computer code. Since it was launched on November 30, OpenAI’s newest language model, which was trained on a very large corpus of human knowledge, has demonstrated an uncanny capability to generate compelling responses to text-based prompts.
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It’s anybody’s guess whether this particular technology opens the AI kimono for good or is just a blip before the next AI winter sets in, but one thing is certain: It’s kickstarted an important conversation about AI, including what level of transparency we should expect when working with AI and how to tell when it’s lying. ChatGPT was introduced just seven weeks ago, but the AI has already garnered a lifetime’s worth of hype.
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