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Is Using ChatGPT Cheating?

If you brought a programmable calculator to your fifth-grade class in 1965, you would have quickly been bounced out on your ear by Mrs. Clark, your persnickety and vaguely sullen math teacher. You know what she would have called you? A cheater.

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Talent in the Year 2022

Talent has always been a mystery: to define it, to understand it, to cultivate it. It’s one of those things that you can say is difficult to describe, but you know it when you see it.

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Does New Always Mean Innovative?

Mashable has reported that more than 400 people in wigs and mustaches, breaking a Guinness record for most look-alike physicists in one location, invaded the streets of Toronto in a version of an “Einstein-In.” They are part of an online contest to create a new, innovative idea that will improve the world.

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You Are Freaking Me Out

Before us lies the horizon of artificial intelligence. Supposedly we want AI because it is going to revolutionize our work and make the world seamless, integrated and progressive. We have heard that promise before, no? But are we creating a heaven on earth, or digging our own virtual graves?

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