This genius student uses the power of AI and a 3D printer to ‘handwrite’ their homework
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As technology advances, you can always count on one thing: students will use it to avoid doing homework. One industrious student not only got an AI chatbot to do their homework assignment, but they also rigged it to a 3D printer to write it out on pen and paper, expending the maximum amount of effort required to do the minimum amount of homework. Bravo!
TikTok user3d_printer_stuffshared a series of videos on how they programmed a 3D printer to produce homework with the answers thatChatGPTwrote.
They gave ChatGPT their assignment; it spit out an answer, and then they copy/pasted that text over to3dwriter. As you can see, once you sort out the proper spacing and mount a pen onto your 3D printer, 3dwriter can write out the AI-generated text onto a sheet of paper perfectly between the margins. The tutorial video shows the process step-by-step.
ChatGPT has been in the news recently after Microsoft said it would invest$10 billion in OpenAI. The company developed an AI chatbot that scrapes the internet to produce long-form answers to questions in a human-like fashion. This is exactly why ChatGPT has already been banned inNew York City public schoolsover cheating and plagiarism concerns. Ultimately the fear is that students will use it as a crutch and hinder the development of critical thinking skills, which is why the NYC Dept. of Education restricted access to the AI chatbot on its schools' computers. I don’t blame them, considering one of the videos shows math homework being done on the fly.
Of course, as many comments suggest, the next logical step in 3d_printer_stuff’s scheme should be to train an AI to mimic their handwriting. That way, they could fool a teacher since the handwriting shown here is just a little too perfect. You could also use these tools for non-cheating purposes, I guess.I’d argue that setting up a rig to do your homework takes more time than just doing the homework yourself, but I applaud the hustle nonetheless.
Either way, it’s interesting to see what the cross-section of AI and automation can produce that doesn’t involve it being"light outs for us all,“according to one CEO. I nor PC Gamer endorse cheating or scamming your way out of doing homework. We do think it’s cool, though.
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Jorge is a hardware writer from the enchanted lands of New Jersey. When he’s not filling the office with the smell of Pop-Tarts, he’s reviewing all sorts of gaming hardware, from laptops with the latest mobile GPUs to gaming chairs with built-in back massagers. He’s been covering games and tech for over ten years and has written for Dualshockers, WCCFtech, Tom’s Guide, and a bunch of other places on the world wide web.
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