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Right, it seems like you're advocating ChatGPT as an information retreival tool, which seems perfectly acceptable. Looking up exact dates and names is tedious.
by thundergolfer 4y ago
Right, it seems like you're advocating ChatGPT as an information retreival tool, which seems perfectly acceptable. Looking up exact dates and names is tedious.
By "filling in the details" I thought you were referring more generally to the essay writing process, where the structure of an essay is its skeleton and the "details" are the just as essential pieces of argumentation and evidence.
If you write a sociology, history, or philosophy essay, for example, writing the high level structure (intro, topic-sentence 1, topic-sentence 2, ..., conclusion) and then outsourcing the rest would be intellectually bankrupt. You can't understand produce a synthesis argument of Hume's The Wealth of Nations and Theory of Moral Sentiments with ChatGPT.
- lordnacho 4y agoIs that bait? Adam Smith IIRC. Hume did Treatise on Human Nature.
- thundergolfer 4y agoNot bait, but it could have been! I switched my example halfway through because I couldn't think of a 2nd Hume book, but didn't properly edit. Edit: Here's the first paragraph of what ChatGPT responds to my incorrect request for that synthesis argument. Thankfully we had you reply and not ChatGPT: > David Hume's "The Wealth of Nations" and "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" are two of his most famous works that address important aspects of economics and ethics, respectively. While these two works seem to address separate topics, they are related and complement each other in many ways. ... ChatGPT Prompt: produce a synthesis argument of Hume's The Wealth of Nations and Theory of Moral Sentiments