Simply days after OpenAI dropped ChatGPT in late November 2022, the chatbot was broadly denounced as a free essay-writing, test-taking instrument that made it laughably straightforward to cheat. 

Faculties swiftly blocked entry to OpenAI’s web site, whereas a number of main universities issued statements that warned college students in opposition to utilizing the chatbot to cheat.

This preliminary panic was comprehensible. ChatGPT can reply questions and generate slick, well-structured textual content on virtually any matter, from string idea to Shakespeare. However three months on, the outlook is lots much less bleak. Learn the complete story.

—Will Douglas Heaven

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These deep-sea “potatoes” could possibly be the way forward for mining for renewable power

There’s been rising buzz within the information about mining within the deep ocean currently. Proponents say sure spots on the ocean ground could possibly be a key supply of among the metals we have to construct batteries and different know-how that’s essential for addressing local weather change. 

However whether or not business efforts ought to go forward is a supply of rising controversy: there’s lots of uncertainty about how they could have an effect on ecosystems, and lots of politics at play.