> As someone who teaches at the college level, I hear a lot of chatter about students using ChatGPT and other AI software to write their papers for them. So far, I think that threat is pretty narrow.
The software can synthesize existing writing (and it does that well), but original thinking is something it can't do. If I ask it to take two readings and discuss them together, or write about a specific passage from a reading, it can't do that unless enough other people already have. If I ask it to build a piece of writing on a class discussion, obviously it can't do that. If I ask it to walk …