Since the advent of ChatGPT, the revolutionary update of GPT4, and Microsoft’s launch of New Bing combined with search engines, many international students have found that these AIs are simply killers for people with language difficulties! Use it to help with writing documents, essays, brainstorming... It’s all easy, study abroad consultant + ghostwriting + English teacher are all included!
These AIs are like the cyber cat girls that many old two-dimensional people have dreamed of [? , but in terms of academics, they are equally obedient and pleasant. However, the correct use of AI is often only one step away from academic misconduct. So, how can an international student hold on to the thighs of this dangerous and charming boss, so that he can be more efficient without relying on them?
What has AI developed into?
ChatGPT is an AI language model developed by OpenAI that can generate human-like text responses given text prompts. It can answer questions, hold conversations on various topics, and even compose poems, stories, and more.
New Bing is a new search engine launched by Microsoft. It also integrates OpenAI's ChatGPT technology to make search more intelligent and conversational. You can ask New Bing questions like an Assistant, and it will give you detailed answers, citing relevant sources. You can also follow up or revise your question in chat, and New Bing will understand your intent and respond accordingly. New Bing also has an "authoring" feature that helps you write emails, menus, summaries, and more.
New Bing has been embedded in the Windows system
Cough cough, in short, when they first exploded in AI, they have really advanced a lot, which is why a large number of American universities and scientific research circles feel panic.
Just yesterday, more than 1,000 important people, including Musk, many entrepreneurs and university professors, signed a joint letter opposing the continued development of large-scale AI models like ChatGPT. And almost all universities have also classified the unlimited use of AI into the category of cheating.
But in the face of such a near-perfect, good-tempered boss, can international students really just watch from afar and not play around?
uncertain! The following are the correct eating methods of ChatGPT for international students, not only will not be classified as academic misconduct, but if you can play it well, it will also help self-improvement, and the efficiency will be doubled directly!
Brainstorming
It's 11:30 p.m., and you're staring at a document with zero words.
You just entered the freshman year and studied religion for the divisional requirement. You are completely confused about the influence of Islam on the history and culture of a certain city in the prompt given by the professor. The results directly from Google make you even more dazzled, and you have no way to start.
So, you slowly looked at the most popular super thigh - ChatGPT.
provide inspiration
When facing a topic without any ideas, AIs are especially suitable to help you generate ideas and take the first step. The instructions here must be detailed, for example, they should include critical thinking, complexity, real-life application, etc. It is best to sort out the rubric requirements given by the professor and give them to AI.
For example, for the above question, you can ask:
The answer given by ChatGPT is this:
You glanced at the content, and suddenly found that the second idea hit your spot hard! During the demonstrations in Iran some time ago, you paid attention to relevant news for a period of time. You can start with the current social movement, and then go all the way back to the historical evolution... You quickly checked the information.
By the way, at this point, New Bing, which can surf the Internet, may be more useful. For example, if you enter the same question into New Bing, it will give links to relevant materials and even videos, which is so delicious!
provide an outline
But, after all, this is the first time you have written a real college level paper, and it is a topic you are not familiar with. From which angles should this essay be developed?
You have written several versions of the outline, but you always feel that something is missing.
So, it's time for our invincible ChatGPT to play again! Enter your existing ideas + organized prompt requirements + the number of required paragraphs, let it help you lay out the big framework of the article, and the hard-working AI Bodhisattvas will clearly tell you what the structure of an academic paper looks like.
For example, on the topic just now, you can ask:
The answer given by ChatGPT is this:
emmm... More nonsense is the weakness of ChatGPT, and at present, many sources it gives may be their own nonsense.
However, for you who have no idea at all, using ChatGPT's outline may be a good starting point.
For the same question, although the answer given by New Bing does not have a particularly clear structure, the information is much more accurate, and by the way, I have found the source for you by taking advantage of the Internet:
idea expansion
You enthusiastically borrowed the main paragraph ideas fed to you by some AI bigwigs, and started tapping on the keyboard. In the middle of writing, you suddenly find yourself talking back and forth, not knowing how to proceed...
At this time, use the expand command to solve it with one click! Enter the ideas you already have into the chat box and let it help you expand or continue writing. Specific instructions can refer to the following:
For example, here, when you are stuck at the point where women's rights are restricted and society is at an impasse, ChatGPT provides a new perspective, leading from revolution to feminist, successfully reaching the end of the world line with your thesis statement!
Of course, the paragraph generated in this way cannot be used directly . After all, if you look carefully, the first half of it is repeating what you have already written, so knock on the blackboard! Be sure to read the generated answers carefully, add your own ideas, and then use them in the article~
Article Polishing
You are an international student who often has genius inspiration in his mind and converts it into English, but you are all at the elementary school level. Because of this, you sometimes dare not chase your boldest ideas, and only dare to write the most basic but correct content honestly.
However, as long as you use ChatGPT flexibly, you can restore the genius-like ideas in your mind in authentic English! Currently existing writing software, such as grammarly, QuillBot and Ginger, etc., often only specialize in checking grammar and a certain aspect of word replacement, while ChatGPT can completely follow the instructions you feed it, so it is not too invincible!
In terms of article polishing, there are several ways to modify:
Paragraph/sentence synonym substitution:
If you already have quotes of relevant literature at hand, or you have written content yourself, and want to express it in a different way, you can use ChatGPT to find a more suitable wording to replace.
One of the small tricks is to let ChatGPT generate a few more choices and refresh a few times, and the results provided will be more accurate.
For example, the editor here has a paragraph from the data, I hope to keep the original meaning, but in other words, you can give it the following instructions:
The answer given by ChatGPT is probably like this:
Still very valuable, isn't it! Basically, the keywords ("Expansion", "Essential", "Advancing") are replaced according to the input requirements, but the changes are not much, and the gap with the original text is not big. If it is directly pasted from other documents Come here, it's easy to see if you check the weight.
Therefore, if you want to use ChatGPT to directly reword the literature you want to cite, it is best to check it yourself~
Modify the whole paragraph
The content of the paragraph feels insufficient, and you have nothing to say? After talking for a long time, I don't know where the argument is? Not sure if the evidence is sufficient? These requirements can be fed to ChatGPT, let it help you generate a perfect score template!
Of course, the template is just a template, and you still need to do it yourself to fill in the content. The editor still uses the paragraph just now, and you can use this command to ask ChatGPT:
It is obvious that the wording has become much more advanced! However, many sentences are still very vague. For example, the advovay and activism mentioned in the middle have no specific examples at all, okay? And when you ask again:
Although it is still very cliche, at least at this time you can try to find specific examples of protest, lobby and social media in order to create a successful paragraph.
In general, polishing with ChatGPT will generate a set of template sentences that can be applied, and the specific evidence and examples in it need to be filled in by yourself! However, it does improve your efficiency in finding evidence and thinking at a high speed, which is remarkable~
Turning point
You have finally completed two body parahgraphs, but you feel that the overall logic of the article is rather chaotic, and the two paragraphs you wrote do not match each other.
It doesn't matter, ChatGPT will take action! After you have basically adjusted the two paragraphs, you can input the two paragraphs at the same time, let ChatGPT help generate transitional sentences, or let it help adjust the order of sentences to become more logical.
When asking, try to simplify the input content as much as possible, and let ChatGPT generate a few more choices, so that you can use it as a corpus:
The boss ChatGPT patiently gave you 5 slightly different transitional sentences, but the core is still to integrate the resistance of feminist movement + the efforts made by feminist, but the focus of each is slightly different.
Therefore, you still need to see where you want to focus the paragraph, and use these corpora together~
Take the topic
You are a painstaking headline. You have written the thesis and the thesis statement is clear, but you just can’t string together all the keywords in a smooth sentence. And ChatGPT does not know how many dead brain cells it helped save!
It is still a bit difficult to directly stuff a large article into it to get the title, but like other commands, you tell ChatGPT the required requirements, keywords and styles, and generate a few more times, you can always stitch a good one !
The questioning method also depends on the style you want for your title. For example, the following are more academic styles. At this time, you can add keywords such as adademic/professional/informational:
You looked at it and felt that the second and fifth ones were not bad. To be more specific, you stepped on various keywords.
Of course, if you want questions that are not so serious, or play with puns, you can also add keywords such as crafty/playful/stylistic, and it will become like this:
understand the literature
It's still you, hard-working liberal arts person. You see philosophers from centuries ago with a black eye, and you are dizzy when you read modern literature full of academic terms, theories, and data.
And if you think about it, for a language analysis model, explaining things is simply ChatGPT's specialty!
There is a paragraph in the literature, you read it back and forth several times and you don’t know what it means, but using translation software is even more wrong. So, you copied this paragraph into ChatGPT and explained it in a language that elementary school students can understand:
Good guy, this really makes sense. But it is too simple.
So you think that using the bullet point method may be more perfect. Here are the commands and results you use:
You are still a person who prefers image memory, so you think, can you ask your exclusive boss to draw a picture for you to understand this passage? So, you give the following command,
The result is also very good, and the definition of keywords is given~
If you need help understanding the entire literature, New Bing, which can be connected to the Internet, may be better. After all, it has been linked with the search engine, and can directly call out the keyword explanation in the paper, and even locate the specific document!
Generally speaking, after reading a paper and knowing its objective, previous research, main findings, limitation, methodology, you can basically understand the whole article, and you can ask questions directly!
Locating Documents
Want to learn about the latest research trends and current hot research topics in the field? In this round, New Bing also has the upper hand. Because of the combination with the search engine, it can not only give answers quickly, but also attach links to webpages and academic works that can be referred to. Find what you need!
For example, still using the example just now, New Bing accurately gives the results that meet all the conditions:
summary
Can handle a lot of repetitive work, can generate beautiful-looking large sentences and papers, can plan brain storming...
You look at the continuous blowout results on the screen, and think to yourself, this horrible productivity, compared to your intimate thighs, ChatGPT and other AIs are more like Pandora's box, no wonder the academic circles shouted at it.
However, although AI bigwigs currently have a variety of academic prostitution methods, it must be remembered that if you want to completely rely on it and not use your own brain, it is no different from ghostwriting .
To flexibly compete with this "big guy" requires excellent judgment and choice . If you can’t even tell the difference between an article with content and structure, and an AI hodgepodge of nonsense that is nothing but nonsense, you are likely to be faced with a case of academic misconduct detected by anti-AI software that has been implanted by universities one after another. destiny.
However, it is actually very simple to hold on to the thigh of AI, the "big guy": the better you give it, the better it will give you back. The clearer the instructions given, the better the existing ideas themselves, and the closer the AIs will give to that ideal result.
As a model for processing a large amount of text, whether it is ChatGPT or New Bing, it is very suitable for processing a large amount of existing information and giving an optimal solution.
It is an exaggeration to say that if it is fed to rely on the defense at the beginning, the result is likely to be the "artificial mental retardation" that everyone complains about.
Therefore, holding the thigh of AI will never mean that everyone can get something for nothing! At this stage, AI is a 24-hour online learning tool that is sometimes a bit timid, but most of the time is patient and polite, and it is also a huge resource pool. Make reasonable use of the strengths of this tool man, save unnecessary time, and use this time to learn new things from it, so as to avoid being eliminated one day!
After all, it won't be everyone who will be weeded out by AI in the future, but those who won't use it correctly.
Will you use AI such as ChatGPT to help with homework? In your opinion, as an international student, how should we reasonably use AI such as ChatGPT? Welcome to share your thoughts in the comment area~