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Philosophical problem from use of programs that compose writing

jeudi 10 novembre 2022 à 04:18

The use of programs that compose articles based on machine learning poses philosophical problems for education in writing.

Here's an idea: if these systems tend to be led by their training towards expressing the usual points of view, assign to a student the task of arguing for an unusual point of view, whether perse really believes it or not.

The idea that there is no point in learning to write well if a program can do that for you is misguided. A calculator, or various programs such as dc or Emacs, can do arithmetic for you, but you need to learn how to add and multiply or you you won't understand those operations fully. Once you know how, you can use a program to actually do it.