“Students’ excessive use of ChatGPT could weaken their writing skills. By relying on artificial intelligence to write their homework, they risk losing their ability to structure ideas and master syntax, skills essential to their intellectual and personal development. »
It’s well written, it sounds good, but it’s boring! How boring! This passage of text, dear readers, was written by ChatGPT. You know, our new digital friend that we are trying to use to get our work done faster. Quite frankly, would you have read an entire text written this way? Certainly not us.
The grammar is perfect, the words are sensible. As for authenticity, we’ll pass. THE Montreal Campus will pass his too. Our newspaper has always been a school for the journalists of tomorrow. A place where pens are formed and where the first journalistic reflexes emerge. Each production is the result of the hard work of the students, and it will stay that way.
Certainly, we could produce almost the entire content of the Montréal Campus with some prompts well written. We would thus ensure an abundance of content to publish in record time. But no.
Why a file on AI?
Artificial intelligence has been the subject of much discussion in recent months and is taking an increasingly prominent place in the lives of students. With this file, the Montreal Campus wants to offer you a younger perspective on this technology that is now essential in our lives.
Learn to think
The editor-in-chief of philosophy magazines, Martin Legros argues that with infinite data, Chat GPT describes and explains. With finite data, our human intelligence is capable of giving a unique flavor to critical thinking.
Yes, AI will play a role in the future of humanity. We only have to look at archaeology, where the AI eye is already proving far superior to the human eye, to date objects and find lost cities. Or even in medicine, where AI will enable a host of advances, including more intelligent triage of patients in the emergency room.
But the ability to think and choose words is also essential. This is why we still need to train the thinkers of tomorrow. Mr. Legros recalls that the ethics of humans will always exceed those of the machine, since in his opinion the latter betrays a “moral indifference”.
Point of no return
In the month of August, Duty told us that almost a third of secondary 5 students fail their French ministerial exam. With the increasingly frequent use of AI, the bar is unlikely to rise again. AI can help us do effective research. But it cannot replace our memory to remember our conjugations, nor use our originality.
So what will its effects be? Are we going to voluntarily give our consent to digital technology to take control of our pen? Let’s keep in mind that AI should help us and not replace us, although the line seems thin and unsupervised.
Students already have difficulty writing (we wish this was our opinion, but it is an unfortunate reality). Let us be careful, because at this rate we will lose the meaning of words.
