On Wednesday, French high school students passed the “Bac” in philosophy, which consisted of a dissertation on happiness. A French media thinker has undergone a competition with ChatGPT4 intelligence. Who won?
“Happiness is a matter of reason?” : This was one of the questions that thousands of students of France they had to face this Wednesday during the test of Philosophy to get the Baccalaureate known as back .
The national test gave rise to an experiment in Paris. Philosopher Raphael Enthoven accepted the challenge of a business and technology school and measured himself against ChatGPT4 . The subject to be developed was “Happiness is a matter of reason?” .
The tests, whose authors have not been identified, have been corrected by Eliette Abecassis , associate professor of philosophy and writer, and high school teacher known as the “Serial Thinker” on TikTok. Result: ChatGPT scored 11/20, and Raphaël Enthoven 20/20.
Although they rated both journals blindly, “you can guess who wrote what, even from the first few words,” Abécassis said.
“In the work of ChatGPT, there is not even a problem (…) They are often very long sentences, quite hollow, without content, in which the arguments are not understood (…) There are appointments to try to shine” , according to Lev Fraenckel, aka “Serial Thinker”. “Philosophy is not that at all, it’s not about stringing together beautiful sentences,” he adds. Besides, “The reference to the authors is very weak, because there are errors.”
The organizing school Paris School of Technology and Commerce , a very long question was expected so that the program followed the classic essay format. It was also suggested which authors to refer to.
ChatGPT used brief and vague references to Aristotle, Kant, Freud, Nietzsche and Camus. He had a certain stylistic audacity, but, trained not to pronounce himself, he did not commit himself to the problem at all. His conclusion is as follows: “There is no universal answer, but a myriad of paths to happiness (…) Happiness could well be a matter of reason… and much more.”
Raphaël Enthoven considers that philosophers are among the professionals least likely to be replaced by artificial intelligence.
“The teaching of philosophy is not threatened… I bet we could have given (ChatGPT) a whole book of recommendations, without making a philosopher out of it,” he said.
The human dissertation, written in an hour and a half, advocates “the urgency and the interest of thinking of reason itself and its activity as a form of happiness”.
Source: Latercera
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