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The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Katie Krzaczek

An AI bot passed this Wharton professor's exam. Here's why he's not concerned

Wharton professor Christian Terwiesch was sitting with his grown children around the dinner table when the subject of artificial intelligence came up. Both of his kids had been experimenting with the nascent technology in their respective fields: "one of them is interested in design...and the other one is interested in computer science."

Eventually his son prompted ChatGPT to explain a sorting algorithm "using terms from Homer Simpson."

"It was funny," Terwiesch said, adding, "it was, from a computer science perspective, correct, and it was so easy as a user interface."

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