The summer is over, schools are back, and the data is in: ChatGPT is mainly a tool for cheating on homework.
The summer is over, schools are back, and the data is in: ChatGPT is mainly a tool for cheating on homework.
ChatGPT traffic dropped when summer began and schools closed. Now students are back, and they're using the AI tool again more.
The summer is over, schools are back, and the data is in: ChatGPT is mainly a tool for cheating on homework.::ChatGPT traffic dropped when summer began and schools closed. Now students are back, and they're using the AI tool again more.
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So the homework is encouraging kids to explore a real life tool and the teacher can look at the result and corrects any issue with the result thus guiding the students towards a appropriate usage.
It's a good thing.
This would be a good take if it was actually a reliable tool. But the answers it gives are often incorrect or entirely made up, and it is not always reproducible because it's always "learning" more and changing its output. Learning to rely on an unreliable tool is asking for trouble.
What would happen if they ever decide to crank up the paid model for ChatGPT and suddenly most people can't afford it, only corporations, and the last 10-20 years of people coming up through the school system now don't know how to do anything or find answers to their questions.
By that time it's going to be an app on our neural implant.
Just like when we were growing up the teachers said we wouldn't always have a calculator. They need to learn to use the tool responsibly, just like Wikipedia.
you can't be serious
I bet calculator usage also goes up during the school year
I'm from the "show your work, you won't carry a calculator around when you're in the real world" generation. This hits home hard.
While im from the early "Not much in life needs manual calculation, and if it does we already have a calculator on us at all times" generation haha.
Honestly, I could work harder on practicing mental calculations even now, but I see vastly more value in continuing my learning of technology to improve my career and hobbies.
This is the way
At the end of the day generative AI not only exists but is likely right at the start of a logistics curve. In ten years time this tech is going to be pervasive
Would you rather have them only use it outside of school work where no one will point out that it can be wrong? Teachers could also ask questions on the studied subject in class to teach student that by copy pasting the output they are not learning much.
ChatGPT exist, kid will use it. Should adults guide them?
Future generations learning how to utilize powerful new technologies is a bad thing now?