According to an experiment conducted this Wednesday in Paris, ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence (AI) tool trained to write a thesis in philosophy, created an academically acceptable version of an undergraduate topic in France.
“Is happiness a matter of reason?” there was a subject analyzed by this “software” that “collided” with the philosopher Raphael Enthoven in a “meeting” organized by the school of business and technology.
Result: ChatGPT scored 11 out of 20 and Raphael Enthoven scored 20/20, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP).
These scores were jointly submitted by philosophy teacher and writer Eliette Abecassis and a high school teacher known by the pseudonym “Serial Thinker” on the social network TikTok.
If the works were evaluated in a “blind test”, the jury would have guessed who wrote what, “according to the first words,” Abecassis emphasized.
“The ChatGPT version does not even have problems (…) Often these are very long sentences, rather empty at the end, where there is no content, where we do not understand the arguments (…) quotes for try to shine,” he emphasized Lev Frenkel, a well-known as a “Serial Thinker”.
“This is not a philosophy at all, this is not a stringing of beautiful phrases,” he added, noting that “the reference to the authors is very weak, because it contains errors.”
The Paris School of Technology and Business, which hosted the “duel”, finalized a very long question to ask “software” for the classic dissertation forms, also suggesting authors to link to ChatGPT.
ChatGPT quoted Aristotle, Kant, Freud, Nietzsche and Camus with vague and brief references.
“Software” showed some stylistic audacity, but, accustomed to not having an opinion, did not delve into the issues.
In his conclusion, he states: “There is no universal answer, but there are many paths to happiness (…) Happiness may well be a matter of the mind … and much more.”
Raphael Enthoven believes that philosophers are among the professionals least likely to be replaced by artificial intelligence.
“The teaching of philosophy is not in danger (…) I bet we could send [ao ChatGPT] a whole book of recommendations without making him a philosopher,” he stressed.
The work worked out by man, completed in an hour and a half, ends with “urgency and interest in understanding the mind itself and its activities as happiness.”
With great technical complexity, AI systems are as fascinating as they are unsettling.
Its huge potential was revealed to the general public late last year with the launch of ChatGPT, an editorial content producer from California-based OpenAI, which can write essays, poems, or translations in seconds.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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