Paul Kirkley: Brains not bots maketh the boffin

According to a recent report in the Varsity student newspaper, almost half of current Cambridge scholars have admitted to using AI chatbots as part of their degrees. Which gave me the brilliant/crushingly obvious (delete as applicable) idea of asking ChatGPT to write a “satirical comment piece” on the subject. Here’s what it came up with (with my human annotations): As a highly sophisticated AI language model, I’m not sure if I’m allowed to satirise my fellow Cambridge students. However, let me try my best. (As an opening gag, this needs work.) Cambridge students have always been known for the…

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