Are Good Ideas Hard to Find?
This academic paper tells us a lot about why innovation has slowedMany do not think of these small ideas, most of them highly technical, that enabled the improvements in chips, crop yields and new drugs.
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Will ChatGPT End Up Improving Higher Education?
Oral exams are an endangered species in higher education today, but they are a powerful tool for evaluating knowledge in a world of AIThis article was written by Peter Jacobsen and was reposted from MercatorNet under a Creative Commons License. A new artificial intelligence (AI) system called ChatGPT has been released to the public, and many have been shocked to see the extent of its abilities. ChatGPT can accomplish many tasks. For example, it can write poems about any topic, give book recommendations, summarize specific chapters of books, and create workout routines. If you’re asking whether the AI just Google-searches for responses, the answer is no. If you try to find the source of ChatGPT’s responses, you’ll find they are fresh writing. This brings us to the most impactful thing ChatGPT can do when it comes to my fellow academics and me. ChatGPT can write Read More ›