Out of curiosity I fed it some questions from assignments I had during my undergrad. Predictably, it got answers asking for simple factual knowledge quite right. It also did quite well in delivering a bone structure for essays/reports.
But it completely failed on more complex questions related to maths or algorithms. The answers still read really well, they were just completely false.
My best guess is that we will soon all have ai assistants, which will certainly shift teaching and being taught, but I don’t think we have to panic yet.
Anton—this sounds accurate. Chat GPT seems much stronger on qualitative verbal answers than on math, algorithms, and logic.
But, outside hard-core STEM fields, a lot of college courses focus on qualitative verbal answers. So, those of us who teach in the social and behavioral sciences will face stronger challenges than those who teach in computer science, physics, or statistics.
Out of curiosity I fed it some questions from assignments I had during my undergrad. Predictably, it got answers asking for simple factual knowledge quite right. It also did quite well in delivering a bone structure for essays/reports. But it completely failed on more complex questions related to maths or algorithms. The answers still read really well, they were just completely false. My best guess is that we will soon all have ai assistants, which will certainly shift teaching and being taught, but I don’t think we have to panic yet.
Anton—this sounds accurate. Chat GPT seems much stronger on qualitative verbal answers than on math, algorithms, and logic.
But, outside hard-core STEM fields, a lot of college courses focus on qualitative verbal answers. So, those of us who teach in the social and behavioral sciences will face stronger challenges than those who teach in computer science, physics, or statistics.