The GPT-3 text generator has proven adept at producing code, blogs, and, err, bigotry. But is the AI a good student? Education resource site EduRef has tried to find out — by testing the system’s essay-writing skills. The company hired a panel of professors to create writing prompts for essays on US history, research methods, creative writing, and law. They fed the prompts to GPT-3, and also gave them to a group of recent college graduates and undergrad students. The anonymized papers were then marked by the panel, to test whether AI can get better grades than human pupils. Some of the results could unnerve professors — and excite unscrupulous students.…
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