Trivia / The Homework Machine

• Accidentally-Correct Writing: The concept of a machine being able to scan homework and do it for someone, just by processing information from the Internet, seemed laughable when this book was written. But nowadays, this is essentially what large language models do, especially when you add multimodal ones like GPT-4 to the equation. In fact, it's a widely-reported fact that students frequently use services like ChatGPT for this exact purpose, much to the chagrin of teachers and professors.

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