ChatGPT can help people perform writing assignments faster and better, a new study1 says. The artificial-intelligence (AI) tool is especially helpful for those who have relatively weak writing skills, boosting their performance to levels closer to those of more-proficient individuals.
The results raise questions about whether ChatGPT and similar tools will displace human labour. But the findings also hint at possible social benefits, the authors say.
“This could potentially mean that, in the longer run, we could see reductions in inequality as performance is equalized across different skill groups,” says Whitney Zhang, a PhD student in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, and a co-author of the study.
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