Reddit conversation about using GPT-3 to write your homework. A teacher comments: "Grading something an AI wrote is an incredibly depressing waste of my life."

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  • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    On the war thing, there was a funny story by (Philip K Dick?) about a future where the US (and a general Western front) and the Soviets were conducting all their battles via robots and had relegated that task completely to them. The protagonists of the short story accidentally end up discovering that actually the Soviet robots and the US robots had realized that the war was pointless and it was better to maintain the illusion of an ongoing war whilst they tended to the running and maintenance of human cities.

    • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      I thought you were describing Second Variety in the first half, but that has the robots evolve until they turn on their creators before continuing an endless war on each other.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      I don't know that story but it certainly doesn't have any Philip K. Dick vibe to me. But watch me be wrong when somebody googles and then says "Yup. It's a Philip K. Dick short story."

    • Collatz_problem [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Somewhat reminds me of Lem "Peace on Earth", despite it basically only sharing 'robotic Cold war' premise.