About 16 years into the future, a young student named Charlie has decided to research the Rhetoric of early AI.
To start this research, Charlie decides to start with this scenario:
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[[What are some facts on AI?]]
Ever since AI was created in 1980, it has evolved. In 2022, AI took the form of a popular app known as ChatGPT and an epic rise in AI-generated art.
[[ Charlie ]]Ever since big name AI programs have came out like ChatGPT have grown to popularity, kids like Charlie are being educated on the rights and wrongs of using AI.
[[ Continue ]]In Charlie’s Digital Studies class, the teacher assigns homework to write a report on AI. As Charlie starts researching the current state of AI, he encounters two AI websites. One uses AI to proofread students’ work. The other uses AI that goes from writing summaries to writing entire essays.
Charlie now has two AI sites to choose from:
Pick [[ ChatGBT ]]
Or
[[ Don't use AI ]]
Or
[[ Grammarly ]]Charlie thinks it will be an interesting experiment to see just how well ChatGPT works, so he types a prompt as a basis for the AI’s writing. Within seconds, ChatGPT writes the entire “Rhetoric of Early AI” report!
After Charlie makes a few edits to the AI-generated paper to make it sound more human, he saves it and heads to dinner with his family.
[[ the next day ]]When Charlie clicks on the Grammarly option, he sees that it is a great AI-powered resource that could be useful for improving his research paper. After working on his paper for a few hours, he finishes it. He then runs the Grammarly app on his computer to analyze his writing for improvement suggestions, such as spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
However, before Charlie saved his work, he noticed that he can use Grammarly to see if he plagarized, when he saw that its good to turn in for the next week, he sighs in relieve and saves his work.
[[ With the day the paper is due ]]The next day, Charlie is told to report to his teacher during office hours. As he’s heading there, he sees a representative from the student council.
Charlie is told by his teacher to come in and sit down. After a long, uncomfortable conversation, his teacher and the student council rep warn Charlie never to use AI to write his work again and explain the school’s honor code.
[[Continue]]The rep also explains that doing so again would've had him either on probation or even downright expelled for cheating with AI.
[[ one month later ]]Charlie thought of using AI, but decided it would be for the best if he asked a friend to proofread his work instead.
[[ at school ]]As Charlie turns in his work, he's quite confedient that his report shall get a good grade, he even got his expert writing friend to look at it and give him notes to edit it.
[[ Few weeks later... ]]After waiting for about a week to get his report, Charlie finally does and because he did his work himself, he got an A for his good work.
[[ What happens next? ]]Once Charlie finishes his report with the help of Grammarly and a classmate, he turns it in to the teacher. Thinking he's done well and will receive a good grade, he goes to his friends to celebrate his victory on finishing his paper
[[ Meanwhile in the future ]]After getting the report graded, charlie goes with his friends and family to celebrate with his family for his good job in his report.
After that, they conitune to talk about AI and what its capable of along with how people should or should not use it.
[[ Meanwhile in the future ]]After extensive research on the origins of AI, Charlie has concluded that laws are enforced to keep people safe and make it very unlikely that AI can be used for evil purposes.
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[[The Good and Evil of AI]] As Charlie continues to learn about AI in class, he vows to be more careful concering the use of AI in the future as he does more papers like this.
[[ Meanwhile in the future ]]The Good and Evil of AI
[[Introduction]]