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Re:Professor writes history essays with ChatGPT and has stud... by OJFord on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @03:07AM (#34878189)
Do we know it didn't?
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Re:Professor writes history essays with ChatGPT and has stud... by reflexco on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @03:20AM (#34878289)
It almost certainly did, but for what we lost in working memory, we gained a broadness of outlooks that would have been unfathomable at the time. We are connecting ideas from further afar in a sense.
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Re:Professor writes history essays with ChatGPT and has stud... by mountainb on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @10:13AM (#34882047)
Why is broadness good?
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Re:Professor writes history essays with ChatGPT and has stud... by egman_ekki on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @04:48AM (#34879000)
We don't seem to remember.
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