ChatGPT in colleges, and deep sea mining

Simply days after OpenAI dropped ChatGPT in late November 2022, the chatbot was extensively denounced as a free essay-writing, test-taking device that made it laughably straightforward to cheat. 

Faculties swiftly blocked entry to OpenAI’s web site, whereas a number of main universities issued statements that warned college students in opposition to utilizing the chatbot to cheat.

This preliminary panic was comprehensible. ChatGPT can reply questions and generate slick, well-structured textual content on virtually any subject, from string principle to Shakespeare. However three months on, the outlook is so much much less bleak. Learn the total story.

—Will Douglas Heaven

Will’s piece is from our forthcoming Schooling print concern. When you haven’t already, you’ll be able to subscribe to MIT Know-how Evaluation from simply $80 a 12 months.

These deep-sea “potatoes” could possibly be the way forward for mining for renewable vitality

There’s been rising buzz within the information about mining within the deep ocean recently. Proponents say sure spots on the ocean flooring could possibly be a key supply of a number of the metals we have to construct batteries and different know-how that’s essential for addressing local weather change. 

However whether or not business efforts ought to go forward is a supply of rising controversy: there’s a whole lot of uncertainty about how they may have an effect on ecosystems, and a whole lot of politics at play.