ALVA Woodpeckers build home in Alva woman’s house You may have heard of squatters, but this woman is dealing with squawkers. Who needs a rooster to wake up when you have woodpeckers?
FORT MYERS Man claims he was trapped in a high-rise for 5 days A 77-year-old man wants justice after he claims he spent days trapped on the 24th floor of a high-rise apartment building.
PUNTA GORDA Charlotte Correctional prisoner arrested for death of another inmate State Attorney Amira Fox convened a grand jury, which decided to move forward with a case against a Charlotte Correctional inmate.
SANIBEL Construction near Dairy Queen eagle nest on Sanibel raises concerns While many eagle nests may be a bit difficult to see, one nest has always been a favorite for Sanibel residents and tourists.
The environmental effects of artificial sweeteners Experts are studying how the foods we eat affect the environment, especially after we flush our waste down the toilet.
Victim reacts to man exposing himself to her Ring camera You get a notification on your phone from your ring camera app that someone is at the door, only to find out it is someone exposing themselves. It’s the last thing victim Maria Kivi wanted or expected to see last week.
LEE COUNTY The art of capturing your eye and drawing you in How do you capture young, hip, trendy, fun, movers and shakers, all in a pose? We take you behind the scenes of a Gulfshore Life cover shoot.
FORT MYERS The lives of two SJC Boxers changed in the ring Two SJC Boxers, Mario Nunez and Arbon Kurtishi, help each other in the ring as each of them had their lives changed because of boxing.
FORT MYERS Chlamydia cases rising sharply in Lee County If you think about a crowded space- something with more than 250 people- if it’s in Lee county, statistically one person has chlamydia.
SANIBEL Sanibel resort day passes hope to get more business on the island A pass will allow vacationers to hang out at a Sanibel beach club for a day in hopes of drumming up some business.
Voting equipment tested ahead of Lee County elections Voting equipment is being tested in Lee County. This is to ensure all ballots are printed and counted correctly for the upcoming election.
Collier County teen assaulted after leaving party The teen has been charged and the sheriff’s office said they’re aware that many believe felony charges are in order, but under Florida law, there are very specific criteria that must be met for felony charges to be filed.
WINK weather team watching tropical wave over Atlantic Ocean The Weather Authority is watching a tropical disturbance over the Central Atlantic Ocean.
CAPE CORAL Cape Coral drug bust leads investigators to fake fentanyl, cash and guns Cape Coral man arrest on drug charges. Investigators said they found, guns, drugs, and more than $32,000 in Richard Riley’s home.
NAPLES Naples youth flag football team to compete in Ohio tournament This weekend, the Naples Lunatics Green will compete in the Superhero Sports tournament in Canton, Ohio.
ALVA Woodpeckers build home in Alva woman’s house You may have heard of squatters, but this woman is dealing with squawkers. Who needs a rooster to wake up when you have woodpeckers?
FORT MYERS Man claims he was trapped in a high-rise for 5 days A 77-year-old man wants justice after he claims he spent days trapped on the 24th floor of a high-rise apartment building.
PUNTA GORDA Charlotte Correctional prisoner arrested for death of another inmate State Attorney Amira Fox convened a grand jury, which decided to move forward with a case against a Charlotte Correctional inmate.
SANIBEL Construction near Dairy Queen eagle nest on Sanibel raises concerns While many eagle nests may be a bit difficult to see, one nest has always been a favorite for Sanibel residents and tourists.
The environmental effects of artificial sweeteners Experts are studying how the foods we eat affect the environment, especially after we flush our waste down the toilet.
Victim reacts to man exposing himself to her Ring camera You get a notification on your phone from your ring camera app that someone is at the door, only to find out it is someone exposing themselves. It’s the last thing victim Maria Kivi wanted or expected to see last week.
LEE COUNTY The art of capturing your eye and drawing you in How do you capture young, hip, trendy, fun, movers and shakers, all in a pose? We take you behind the scenes of a Gulfshore Life cover shoot.
FORT MYERS The lives of two SJC Boxers changed in the ring Two SJC Boxers, Mario Nunez and Arbon Kurtishi, help each other in the ring as each of them had their lives changed because of boxing.
FORT MYERS Chlamydia cases rising sharply in Lee County If you think about a crowded space- something with more than 250 people- if it’s in Lee county, statistically one person has chlamydia.
SANIBEL Sanibel resort day passes hope to get more business on the island A pass will allow vacationers to hang out at a Sanibel beach club for a day in hopes of drumming up some business.
Voting equipment tested ahead of Lee County elections Voting equipment is being tested in Lee County. This is to ensure all ballots are printed and counted correctly for the upcoming election.
Collier County teen assaulted after leaving party The teen has been charged and the sheriff’s office said they’re aware that many believe felony charges are in order, but under Florida law, there are very specific criteria that must be met for felony charges to be filed.
WINK weather team watching tropical wave over Atlantic Ocean The Weather Authority is watching a tropical disturbance over the Central Atlantic Ocean.
CAPE CORAL Cape Coral drug bust leads investigators to fake fentanyl, cash and guns Cape Coral man arrest on drug charges. Investigators said they found, guns, drugs, and more than $32,000 in Richard Riley’s home.
NAPLES Naples youth flag football team to compete in Ohio tournament This weekend, the Naples Lunatics Green will compete in the Superhero Sports tournament in Canton, Ohio.
Educators face a new dilemma, as “artificial intelligence” chatbots like ChatGPT have become so popular that students are now using them to get better grades. ChatGPT is a chatbot that has been fine-tuned—by its programmer and by people who interact with it repeatedly—to give users seemingly educated and detailed responses to their questions. The program launched in November. Users can type in questions, requests or prompts, and the chatbot spits out an answer in seconds. “When it first came out, I was a little nervous, I’ll be honest,” said Chrissann Ruehle, a management instructor at Florida Gulf Coast University. “It’s one of those, I think, technologies that’s going to kind of shift the way things are done,” said Kevin Daly, president of the Lee County Teachers Association. In Lee County, that shift has already started, but not in the direction that so-called artificial intelligence was intended to go. In early February, students at Cape Coral High School were accused of using a chatbot to cheat on their International Baccalaureate essays. “If you’re just able to go on and ask it to do something, and it does something, you know, that kind of belittles the activity or the process of writing,” Daly said. Detecting if something was human-written or using artificial intelligence. CREDIT: WINK News The Cape Coral High IB program coordinator agrees. In an email to parents, the coordinator said using chatbots to generate essays or answers “is a violation of our academic integrity policy.” Ruehle has a different take. “Students may be competing with artificial intelligence for jobs in the future, and I think it’s important to prepare our students now so that they can learn they learn how to make decisions with the technology,” Ruehle said. Daly says he understands that line of thinking, but he believes there’s a certain way chatbots should possibly be used in the classroom. “If we use it as a tool to support the writing of people… it becomes a tool like the calculator on my cellphone has now become,” Daly said. Ruehle has found her own use for ChatGPT. “I’m starting to use it for lesson planning,” Ruehle said. “I’m starting to use it as a brainstorming tool… it’s actually helping to fuel a lot of my creativity.” But not everyone is on board with the idea of welcoming this new technology into the classroom without limits because the bots can search the internet to answer so many different questions. “Is that an original work of the person?” Daly said. “Or is it the original work of the machine that somebody has allowed the student to quote and declare as their own?” Educators fear students will use chatbots to cheat, but Eric Wang, vice president of AI for plagiarism detection service Turnitin says it’s not that simple. He says the work of chatbots is not difficult to detect. “These AI systems, they’re really picking the next word at a time,” Wang said. “They’re not doing anything that different from the keyword autocomplete that’s happening on your phone.” Knowing ChatGPT isn’t going anywhere, Wang showed how to crack the code with a new program he says can detect traces of ChatGPT’s writing. “There’s an invisible signal that’s very, very detectable between GPT writing and human writing, and it’s because when you and I read or write, we are jumping around with our ideas and moving around,” Wang said. “Our detectors are actually able to pick that up really, really reliably.”