2023-06-15 09:44:29
The ChatGPT software, trained to produce a dissertation in philosophy, produced a passable copy on a baccalaureate subject, showed an experiment attempted on Wednesday June 14 in Paris.
“Is happiness a matter of reason? » was the subject this artificial intelligence writing technology worked on. She faced the philosopher Raphaël Enthoven in a « match » organized by a business and technology school. ChatGPT got 11/20, and Raphaël Enthoven 20/20.
Long hollow sentences
These notes were assigned jointly by an associate of philosophy and author, Éliette Abécassis, and a high school teacher known under the alias Serial Thinker on TikTok. If they assessed both copies blind, “you can guess who wrote what, even from the first words”said the author.
“In the copy of ChatGPT there is not even a problem (…) It is often very long sentences, quite hollow in the end, where there is no content, where we do not understand the arguments (…) There are quotes for trying to shine”selon Lev Fraenckel aka « Serial Thinker ». “That’s not philosophy at all, it’s not stringing together beautiful sentences”, he added. Moreover, “in the reference to the authors, it is very weak, because there are errors”.
The organizing school, the Paris School of Technology & Business, had refined a very long question to ask the software for the classic forms of the dissertation. He was also suggested authors to refer to.
Vague references
ChatGPT retained Aristotle, Kant, Freud, Nietzsche and Camus, with vague and brief references. He had some stylistic audacity, but, trained to have no opinions, did not engage with the issue at all. His conclusion says: “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 believed that philosophers were among the professionals least likely to be replaced by artificial intelligence. “The teaching of philosophy is not threatened (…) I am betting that we could have [à ChatGPT] address an entire book of recommendations, without making a philosopher out of it”he estimated.
The copy of the human, written in an hour and a half, concludes with “the urgency and the interest of thinking of reason itself and its activity as happiness”.
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