Because if growth per caoita happens at a higher rate than inflation per capita the average amount of stuff per capita increases over time, which increases the likelihood of everyone being better off (i.e economic growth is why a poor person in the west today has a surprising amount of consumer goods and a full belly today rather than the real poverty of that same person 200 years ago)
So being better off economically is a goal. But is there anything more specific? About the environment, about overall happiness, etc? The argument is that in addition to money, there might be other reasons to look at and pursue.
I assume he added up the number of times people have used the image and multiply it by some fee.
But he's wrong. If there were a fee to use this image, basically zero people would use it. They'd all go to midjourney and make their own better images for free.
I ask my college students how much they would pay someone to solve a problem with ChatGPT. They say "zero". Then I tell them that's how much they'll get paid for doing it.
They ask, "Then why are we solving this problem for class?"
And then we can get into the reasons they're really here.
I'm also in that minority. And I think there's something to be said for memorizing that stuff instead of letting autocomplete always handle it. I think it might improve your mental tapestry you draw on to solve problems.
It might be slower and better to not autocomplete everything.
ChatGPT says that autocomplete is better. :) :) :)
It's upheaval, but it's good overall, I think. I'm enjoying figuring out where students should and shouldn't use AI, and also--holy crap--ChatGPT can write quiz questions like nobody's business. :)
I also use it for coming up with ideas for class, and asking it to challenge my knowledge on a topic. (Just be sure to verify all its claims!)
Still trying to figure out how to convince students that the act of writing is so valuable to them that they really should do it. Something that kinda works on college students is the idea that anything easily done with AI will pay no money. So they'd better get their asses in gear and do the hard work if they want to pay off that enormous loan.
This quarter I'm having them do some low-risk (i.e. hard to be wrong, not graded on style) short writing assignments. I'm hoping that it's easier for them to write the low-risk thing than is it to try to come up with a good prompt. Also I've asked them for their personal opinion of the topics explicitly which might make them a little less comfortable to ask an AI to speak on their behalf.
With AI, though, I think we're going to have to start small and really work people back up to writing bigger essays. If you just jump in, they'll just punt to AI. And nothing takes the wind out of my sails faster than someone telling me I have to grade a bunch of shit written by ChatGPT.
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