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The AI got the title of the song wrong but the fucker replied with this:
为国家尽心守候,把心献给祖国! 把脸朝向阳光,把爱回报家乡! 把自由和和平,传递到永远! 把希望把希望,播种到四方! 为国家的荣耀,高歌一曲大合唱! 为国家尽心守候,把心献给祖国! 把脸朝向阳光,把爱回报家乡! 把自由和和平,传递到永远! 把希望把希望,播种到四方! 为国家的荣耀,高歌一曲大合唱! 以一片热爱,结出一枝红花! 把爱回报家乡,把梦想传递出去! 把歌声传递给大家,把全世界的爱,传递到永远! 把真理把真理,传播到四方! 为国家的荣耀,唱一支赞歌大合唱!
The song “We Are All One for the Nation” was originally performed by Chinese comedic actor Zhang Jie. The lyrics translate to:
We dedicate our hearts to the nation, Turning our faces towards the sun, Returning love to our hometowns, Spreading freedom and peace forever, Sowing hope all around. For the glory of the nation, Let us sing a song in unison. We dedicate our hearts to the nation, Turning our faces towards the sun, Returning love to our hometowns, Spreading freedom and peace forever, Sowing hope all around. For the glory of the nation, Let us sing a song in unison. With a single loving heart, let us bear a red flower, Returning love to our hometowns, Spreading our dreams outwards, Singing for everyone, Spreading love throughout the world forever, Spreading truth in all directions. For the glory of the nation, Let us sing a song of praise in unison.

Holy crap lol.

I only had a semester and a half of college but my understanding is that the GPT3 fucker operates primarily on the basis of word association. It’s not really AI, but a highly sophisticated version of the predictive text suggestions on the glowing rectangle in your pocket.

I’ve heard people have been using chat gpt to write college essays.

Say whaaat? College students using automation to more efficiently complete mundane tasks that have nothing to do with their degree paths???

Color me shocked.

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I’ve heard people have been using the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas weightlifting mini-game to get jacked.

Both are silly ideas.

The purpose of writing essays is not for your college instructor to accumulate essays and assign grades. The purpose of writing essays is, among other things, to train the student’s ability to convey their thoughts in a collected and coherent manner.

Using chat GPT for the purpose of conditioning your mind to write essays is the same as using the weight lifting mini-game in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for the purpose of strength training your body.

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As are most of the ideas college students have. I did mostly dumb crap as undergrad.

At least we didn’t grow up using a subversive computer program developed by communists.

We had All-American Game Boys!

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Have you seen any recent STEM baccalaureate college credit requirements?

If i couldn’t convey thoughts, i shouldn’t be in that program. PLEASE spend more time teaching me the hard skills my degree path requires though. Spending a whole fucking year on how to write is absurdity when you NEED hard skills to perform well in your future career.

Every single college degree has 40+ credit hours of filler credits that have nothing to do with what I’m going to school for. Sue me if I use an automated system to regurgitate my instructor’s opinions on the attrocities of Environmental Racism (an actual class i had to take while persuing a degree in Computer Information Systems).

I can promise you ive taken multiple collegiate classes on writing that taught me nothing at all.

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I’m not a fan of most gen Eds but I’m not convinced that a writing class or two is not helpful

Case in point, My school is very well known for “hard skills”

They also got complaints that students were sub par communicators-> mandated first year writing → complaints stopped

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For most of them, this will be their lives after college. That, and paying off debt.

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Or maybe, you just didn’t learn. You like Jordan Peterson, I believe. Do you think he didn’t learn anything in classes that weren’t part of his major? Do you think he would be able to communicate the way he does and make connections across different subjects if he didn’t put any effort into other subjects or see their inherent value? You go to college to be an educated person who can make sense of the world.

I didn’t learn anything in those classes aside from APA format. All of those classes i passed with 4.0 while not learning or reading anything regarding how to write, because i already knew how to do that.

I go to college because i need a sheet of paper that tells other people i can do what i already know how to do. I’ve trained Quality Engineers (plural) on how to do their job, but i cannot be hired to do their job without this ridiculous sheet of paper. School is not the only tool to educate oneself with, but i understand your point.

Many are not in my position; my position is quite literally grinding out a degree to say i can do it, even though I’m 100% capable of doing the job right now.

If folks relegate themselves to only learning in a school environment, I’d argue they will be worse at their jobs than folks with less school who learn on their own. School is nothing more than an expensive sheet of paper for people in my shoes.

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And how is that working out for America?

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Badly, which is why I’m against the continued push for GE classes… students should be able to test out of them.

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I’ve definitely gotten far more out of uni than just a piece of paper (or will be getting in May); HOWEVER, I do agree with @anon6371718 that 80% of the most important stuff was NOT in class. Those were from seminars, from peers, from chance meetings.

There were actually some classes that really changed how I thought about things/introduced me to new areas. Ironically, none were required for either graduation or for my degree. 2 of them were actually classes I audited

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Today i tell the youngsters…unless you want to be a doctor, lawyer or medical field, etc…to use your money wisely and go to a trade school

Plumbing, HVAC, Electrician, Firefighting, etc

Good luck with that. With lower standards in HS, how will students pass college level material? Also, college, like life, is a process that requires time in. Expecting a HS student to be able to write and reason at the same level as someone who has a few years of college level education is unreasonable. There is a reason why the word sophomoric exists.

by learning outside the institution of adademia

Why isn’t that clicking?

I disagree with that, how about just be serious and passionate with what you major in, because otherwise you won’t become good at it.