Recently, the artificial intelligence chatbot ‘ChatGPT’ developed by the American artificial intelligence research institute and start-up ‘OpenAI’ is gaining sensational popularity. Among them, a professor at Seoul National University recommended using it for writing a thesis and gave cautions.
On the 10th, on the free bulletin board of Seoul National University’s ‘Everytime’, an anonymous community for college students, a story that writer A had with a professor on ChatGPT was posted.
Mr. A told an anecdote that he had used, saying, “Because ChatGPT is hot, even people in the lab have come up and down as topics of conversation.”
He said, “One of the people in the lab said, ‘Shall we return the conference abstract submitted?’ He asked ChatGPT to summarize the draft he had written, according to the length,” and claimed, “After blinking for about 3 seconds, an almost perfect summary came out.”
Then, people exclaimed ‘wow’ and at the same time shared a joke saying, “I should have submitted an abstract with this.”
Mr. A said, “After laughing, we went back to the forest of experiments and started working individually.” Around lunchtime, the professor summoned the students. In the midst of speculation, the professor came in and sat down.”
The professor asked the students, “There’s been a lot of talk lately about ChatGPT. Are you guys using that too?”
The students seemed to be afraid that they would hear the professor’s scolding, and they rolled their eyes in shock to check each other’s faces.
At this time, the host student replied, “Since they talk so much, we once asked simple daily questions, and it was quite fun.”
The professor sighed, saying, “I also saw that he wrote assignments and papers almost perfectly. It gave me goosebumps.”
Regarding the situation at the time, Mr. A said, “We all agreed unspokenly in our hearts. He was intending to say, ‘I will die if I write a thesis relying on this.'”
However, contrary to the thoughts of Mr. A and the students, the professor encouraged the use of ChatGPT, saying, “So, you guys also use a little bit of that when writing thesis intros.”
At this, Mr. A and the students were embarrassed, and the student in the room asked, “Isn’t it a little contrary to research ethics?”
The professor said, “Anyway, when I write the introduction, I know that I spend time searching for data, checking, and summarizing data by inserting all kinds of keywords, searching the dictionary to avoid using the same words, and searching again saying, ‘Oh, there was a term that meant this’.” Don’t do it, leave it to ChatGPT, then refine it and write it.”
“The important thing is not to write it as it is, but to know how to refine it according to the author’s point of view,” he explained. did.
Then he said, “However, you guys also have to be familiar with what you’ve written. You know it’s obvious when you see something like that, right? Anyway, when I’m editing, I’ll look at everything and ask questions when it’s obvious. Good job then,” and left.
Afterwards, Mr. A claims that the students dispersed in a state of somewhat surprised by the values of the professor who had an unexpectedly progressive perspective.
Mr. A said, “I sat down and thought for a while. In this era of AI, which collects data faster than humans and writes proficiently, where should I find a place to stand as a researcher and as a human being? ),” he said.
At that moment, a doctoral student grinned and exclaimed, “I haven’t written the conference abstract yet.” Mr. A finished the article humorously, saying, “I was really envious.”
One netizen who saw this article said, “The professor gave me a point. Be familiar with the content. In the end, he says that you should be familiar with the results of AI or whatever.” I don’t have it, but I’m saying don’t use it as if it’s your ability as a tool.”
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