The Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool ChatGPT, trained to write a dissertation in philosophy, produced an academically acceptable version of a high school subject in France, according to an experiment conducted Wednesday in Paris.
“Is happiness a matter of reason?” was the subject analyzed by this ‘software’, which ‘confronted’ the philosopher Raphaël Enthoven, in a ‘meeting’ organized by a business and technology school.
Result: ChatGPT scored 11 out of 20 and Raphaël Enthoven 20/20, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.
These qualifications were awarded jointly by philosophy teacher and writer Éliette Abécassis, and a high school teacher, known by the pseudonym “Serial Thinker” on the social network TikTok.
If the works had been evaluated in a “blind test,” the jury would have guessed who wrote which just “by the first words,” Abecassis said.
“In the ChatGPT version there is not a problem (…) Many times they are very long sentences, quite hollow at the end, where there is no content, where we do not understand the arguments (…) quotes to try to shine”, stressed Lev Fraenckel, known as “Serial Thinker”.
“This is not philosophy at all, it is not stringing together pretty 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 organized the ‘duel’, refined a very long question to ask the ‘software’ for the classic forms of the dissertation, and also suggested authors for ChatGPT to submit.
ChatGPT quoted Aristotle, Kant, Freud, Nietzsche and Camus, with vague and brief references.
The ‘software’ showed a certain stylistic audacity, but, trained not to give an opinion, it did not get involved in the problem.
In his conclusion he states: “There is no universal answer, but a myriad of paths to happiness (…) Happiness may very well be a matter of reason… and much more.”
Raphaël Enthoven believes that philosophers are among the professionals least likely to be replaced by Artificial Intelligence.
“The teaching of philosophy is not threatened (…) I bet we could have sent [ao ChatGPT] a whole book of recommendations, without turning him into a philosopher”, he stressed.
The work elaborated by the human, carried out in an hour and a half, concludes with “the urgency and the interest to think of one’s own reason and its activity as happiness”.
Of great technical complexity, AI systems fascinate in the same way that they generate concern.
The general public discovered its immense potential at the end of last year with the launch of the production of editorial content ChatGPT, from the Californian company OpenAI, which can write essays, poems or translations in seconds.
Source: TSF
