And the time it takes me
to read you this sentence,
then this new AI platform,
chat GPT can probably write a
book report about it or a poem.
In fact, we just asked it to do
that right now, live here behind us,
on the screen behind me,
we asked chat GPT to come up with
a poem about the Space Needle.
It'll spit it out here in just moments.
We'll find out what it came
up with in a few minutes.
But first, you've likely heard of
this tool that's creating quite the
buzz around the country right now.
But what exactly is chat GPT,
short for generative pre trained transformer.
If you haven't had a moment to look
into it yet, we thought we'd help.
In short, it's a language tool.
You're communicating with
artificial intelligence.
It's the closest we've come yet to having
our computers talk to us like humans.
And it's developed by a
company called Open AI.
You can open it for free right
now on your computer.
Just go to openai.com.
From there, click on the chat,
GPT at the bottom.
You do have to sign up for a free account,
but once you're in,
you can start asking anything you'd like.
In this case, I'll ask it something simple,
like what's the biggest issue facing
the City of Seattle right now?
You can see as it thinks that little
blinking cursor will stay up for
a few seconds or sometimes longer,
but in time the artificial intelligence
spits out the answer. Look at that.
It's giving me a list of five separate.
Issues with explanation?
You can even ask.
Write me a funny thank you letter
from the dinner party last night.
Moments later, there it is.
Look at that. Unbelievable.
It looks like something you
could actually send to somebody.
It's incredible.
I hope this letter finds you well.
And still recovering from the wild
and crazy party we had last night.
I just wanted to take a moment to thank
you for being such an amazing host.
The question is, if I sent this to you,
would you know it's a computer.
The AI is generating answers based on
quick research through the entire Internet,
just like a search engine,
and with millions of queries
like this every day.
In chat GPT now it's only getting smarter,
but many are concerned that chat GPT
can be used for deceptive reasons.
And king fives, Angela Cockney joins
us with that part of the story.
Angela, it sounds like schools
and universities are trying to
get ahead of any possible cheating
using this new technology.
Ohh, yeah, Jake, as more students
use these types of programs,
schools and universities are trying to
get ahead of those cheating concerns.
But some parents I spoke to
say the first step to tackling
it happens at home. Sometimes
you have to have to program it to
do what you want it to do. At just
nine years old, Owen Chung has a better
explanation of AI than a lot of adults
do. Hang on, I've got two COVID kids, right?
Like they grew up doing school on zoom, doing
their research online,
mom and travel Blogger Marcy Chung says
when it comes to her kids being online,
the conversation about what's real
and what isn't started early.
And everyone responsibility when
it comes to technology is teaching
our kids how to use it responsibly.
The hard task when chat bots,
like the free and popular chat GTP,
is designed to look and
feel like a human being.
Once you set up a free account,
you answer a few questions and
then you can give it a prompt.
For example, right?
A lead about schools being worried
that AI will lead to more cheating
within seconds? A full paragraph,
the second line reading.
As AI systems become more sophisticated,
students may find new ways to cheat on tests,
bypassing traditional methods of monitoring.
And detection. That sounds real,
sparking cheating concerns and prompting
some school districts like Seattle to
Block chat bot programs on school devices.
New technologies have long stretched
faculty to try and, you know,
think about how to respond to a new
technology landscape and improve
what they do in the classroom.
Penelope Moon is the director
of UW Center for Teaching and
Learning and says while AI can
be a useful tool to stir ideas,
it's not always accurate. What
can we do in the classroom to help students?
Use the tools thoughtfully and ethically
once they leave the university.
This week, open AI rolled out a
new feature that can detect if an
essay was written by a human or AI.
But it's also not perfect, Moon says.
This stresses the need to
connect assignments to lived
experiences and focus on teamwork,
not facts and memorization.
Struggle is inherent in the learning process,
so if students are using these tools as
a way to avoid intellectual struggle,
then they're short. Teaching themselves.
Now, I reached out to Seattle
Public Schools as well.
They confirmed to me that chat GTP is
currently blocked on school devices.
But they're also working with
teachers who want to use it as
a tool in the classroom, saying,
quote, we can't afford to ignore it.
OK, so if you want to read
that poem by the way that Jake
was talking about it's cut it,
spit out the answer, right?
You asked, you know, can we,
can you write a poem about the
space and a clever poem
about the Space Needle?
And let me just read you the first part.
This is from a computer,
tall and proud.
Space Needle stands a beacon
of the city on its lands,
a symbol of innovation and might its
height a testament to human sight.
And that's one of four graphs
we saw that's good happen live.
So it it spit it out relatively
quickly, within a few seconds.
Right. It's, it's just incredible.
If you want to read this yourself,
we'll send it to you.
Just text us to 206-448-4545,
we'll send that your way.
So many questions though about you know,
I was thinking if you ask the same
question twice, does it come up
with the same answer or does it
come up with a different answer?
And I thought that was a
really good question.
I actually didn't.
I actually kind of like makes
me go try that right now.
Yeah. But like you said too,
it's it's important that maybe we find
a way to do a watermark or something
to prove that if it's written by AI,
that everyone knows it was written
by AI, right. And they released
that sort of feature this week,
right, where teachers,
whoever is suspecting somebody is using AI,
they can upload a piece of text
and AI will tell you if it was
written by AI or a human.
It's very confusing.
This is where the future is headed,
though. This is a big deal
testing topic. Thanks, Angela.