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TreeHuggingHippyMan t1_j1nznce wrote

So i just tried this with my daughter . She’s taking a super hard class in pathogen microbiology and I can barely understand the question the professor asked her to answer .

So I go to chatGPT and we talk it out and find ourselves learning the material much quicker . She knew the questions to elicit the answers but she was using it like a teaching assistant

This will be a game changer for how people learn and may ultimately play into some transition for higher education . Enrollment is about to drop off a cliff so curious to see how it plays out

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ChronoFish t1_j1q6pgp wrote

There is a problem with this approach, and it's two fold.

  1. ChatGPT is very confident in it's answers even when it's blatantly wrong: For instance in a conversation about poker it was able correctly identify the topic, what I was asking and all the individual nuances. And it proceeded to tell me what a pair is correctly. But at the same it told me I was holding a pair of clubs...which obviously is nonsensical. In other words, like a sophomore, it was confidently wrong.

  2. Taking ChatGPT at face value: in order to use it efficiently, you need to validate what it says and be able to recognize when it's wrong. In this way it's less of a learning tool and more a teaching tool. I.e. as a student you wouldn't want to "learn" from it, but as teacher you could use it to pull together a lecture without having to write it from scratch...with the expectation that you would (or at least may) have to edit and correct it.

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TreeHuggingHippyMan t1_j1qijun wrote

Very much agree

This is what I was trying to say. My daughter knows the topics she was asking about . The utility of the tool is the ability to take all the data that is out there and coalesce it into a statement that makes sense .

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ExternaJudgment t1_j1rc7nb wrote

>as teacher you could use it to pull together a lecture without having to write it from scratch...with the expectation that you would (or at least may) have to edit and correct it.

Why? It's not like anyone will pay attention. 😂

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