{"id":626536,"date":"2023-04-07T09:49:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T14:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/07\/the-download-chatgpt-in-schools-and-deep-sea-mining\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T09:49:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T14:49:18","slug":"the-download-chatgpt-in-schools-and-deep-sea-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/07\/the-download-chatgpt-in-schools-and-deep-sea-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"The Download: ChatGPT in schools, and deep sea mining"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\n
\n
\n

Plus: ChatGPT is making up sexual harassment allegations<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n

\n
\n

This is today’s edition of\u00a0The Download<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.<\/em><\/p>\n

ChatGPT is going to change education, not destroy it<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\n

Just days after OpenAI dropped ChatGPT in late November 2022, the chatbot was widely denounced as a free essay-writing, test-taking tool that made it laughably easy to cheat.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n

Schools swiftly blocked access to OpenAI\u2019s website, while several leading universities issued statements that warned students against using the chatbot to cheat.<\/p>\n

This initial panic was understandable. ChatGPT can answer questions and generate slick, well-structured text on almost any topic, from string theory to Shakespeare. But three months on, the outlook is a lot less bleak. Read the full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2014Will Douglas Heaven<\/em><\/p>\n

Will\u2019s piece is from our forthcoming Education print issue. If you haven\u2019t already, you can <\/strong>subscribe<\/strong><\/a> to MIT Technology Review from just $80 a year.<\/strong><\/p>\n

These deep-sea \u201cpotatoes\u201d could be the future of mining for renewable energy<\/strong><\/p>\n

There\u2019s been growing buzz in the news about mining in the deep ocean lately. Proponents say certain spots on the ocean floor could be a key source of some of the metals we need to build batteries and other technology that\u2019s crucial for addressing climate change.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But whether commercial efforts should go ahead is a source of growing controversy: there\u2019s a lot of uncertainty about how they might affect ecosystems, and a lot of politics at play.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\n

A UN group just finished up meetings last week to try to sort all this out, and there could be some key actions on deep-sea mining this summer. Our climate reporter Casey Crownhart explains why potato-sized lumps called polymetallic nodules found on the seabed could help to solve the shortage of the essential metals we need to make more EV batteries. Read the full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Casey\u2019s story is from The Spark, her weekly climate and energy newsletter. <\/strong>Sign up<\/strong><\/a> to receive it in your inbox every Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The must-reads<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve combed the internet to find you today\u2019s most fun\/important\/scary\/fascinating stories about technology.<\/em><\/p>\n

1 Chatgpt invented a sexual harassment scandal<\/strong>
It\u2019s even citing sources for scenarios that never happened. (WP<\/a> $)
+ Google search is going to feature AI from now on. <\/em>(WSJ<\/a> $)
+ US VC firms are funding China\u2019s chatbots. <\/em>(The Information<\/a> $)
+ Why a lot of the fears around AI focus on the wrong things. <\/em>(Vox<\/a>)
+ The inside story of how ChatGPT was built from the people who made it. <\/em>(MIT Technology Review<\/a>)<\/p>\n

2 Donald Trump\u2019s supporters are content creators now\u00a0<\/strong>
Everyone at the rally protesting his arrest was filming and live streaming. (The Verge<\/a>)<\/p>\n

3 Meet the Dutch student fighting against exam monitoring software<\/strong>
Robin Pocornie claims the face detection software discriminates against Black users. (Wired<\/a> $)
+ London police\u2019s facial recognition system is being met with resistance. <\/em>(The Guardian<\/a>)
+ This is how we lost control of our faces. <\/em>(MIT Technology Review<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\n

4 Police have busted an international criminal password marketplace<\/strong>
It sold stolen identities belonging to 2 million victims. (The Guardian<\/a>)
+ Here\u2019s how to check if your credentials were affected. <\/em>(The Verge<\/a>)<\/p>\n

5 The US is overlooking the electric rickshaw<\/strong>
They\u2019re widely used across Asia, and much nimbler than cars. (The Atlantic<\/a> $)<\/p>\n

6 India won\u2019t regulate AI<\/strong>
It\u2019s taking a different tack to policymakers in Europe and the US. (Gizmodo<\/a>)
+ The EU wants to regulate your favorite AI tools. <\/em>(MIT Technology Review<\/a>)<\/p>\n

7 What YouTube\u2019s toxic masculinity teaches young boys
<\/strong>Its echo chamber amplifies and perpetuates the hateful teachings of Andrew Tate. (FT<\/a> $)<\/p>\n

8 Animal testing could be on the way out<\/strong>
Organoids are closer to mirroring how chemicals could affect humans. (Inverse<\/a>)
+ Are rats with human brain cells still just rats? <\/em>(MIT Technology Review<\/a>)<\/p>\n

9 How one gambler cracked roulette<\/strong>
Many tried to cheat the game using microcomputers. Others didn\u2019t need them.(Bloomberg<\/a> $)
+ How mobile money supercharged Kenya\u2019s sports betting addiction. <\/em>(MIT Technology Review<\/a>)<\/p>\n

10 Ukrainian refugees are healing their trauma in the metaverse<\/strong>
The virtual support group gathers in a virtual version of Kyiv. (Motherboard<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\n

Quote of the day<\/strong><\/p>\n

“We could move to a four-day week easily.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014Christopher Pissarides, a Nobel Prize-winning labor economist, is optimistic about chatbots’ ability to lighten humans’ working load, Bloomberg<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

The big story<\/strong><\/p>\n

How scientists want to make you young again<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/figure>\n

<\/a>October 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

A little over 15 years ago, scientists at Kyoto University in Japan made a remarkable discovery.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

When they added just four proteins to a skin cell and waited about two weeks, some of the cells underwent an unexpected and astounding transformation: they became young again. They turned into stem cells almost identical to the kind found in a days-old embryo, just beginning life\u2019s journey.<\/p>\n

Now, after more than a decade of studying and tweaking so-called cellular reprogramming, a number of biotech companies and research labs say they have tantalizing hints that the process could be the gateway to an unprecedented new technology for age reversal. Read the full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2014Antonio Regalado<\/em><\/p>\n

We can still have nice things<\/strong><\/p>\n

A place for comfort, fun and distraction in these weird times. (Got any ideas? <\/em>Drop me a line<\/em><\/a> or <\/em>tweet ’em at me<\/em><\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n

+ If you\u2019re planning a trip to the UK this year, these sightseeing suggestions<\/a> are a good place to start.
+ An interesting take on a possible inspiration for Vincent van Gogh\u2019s Starry Night: his hatred of the Eiffel Tower<\/a>.
+ Is it even possible to pirate a river<\/a>?!
+ A useful guide on how to make peace with Canada Geese<\/a>.
+ For such slow movers, snails<\/a> are surprisingly intrepid travelers.<\/svg> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Read More<\/a>
\n Rhiannon Williams<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Plus: ChatGPT is making up sexual harassment allegations This is today’s edition of\u00a0The Download,\u00a0our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. ChatGPT is going to change education, not destroy it Just days after OpenAI dropped ChatGPT in late November 2022, the chatbot was widely denounced as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":626537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116428,24097,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chatgpt","category-download","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}