"ChatGPT can help people who are stressed by a blank sheet of paper to write a first draft, but afterwards they still have to write and give it a style."
"ChatGPT is an important innovation, but no more so than calculators or text editors," French author and educator Antonio Casilli told AFP. It takes several prompts to realise its error. It isn't.Īlso, ambiguous questions can throw it off track.Īsk the tool to describe the Battle of Amiens and it will give a passable detail or two on the 1918 confrontation from World War I.īut it does not flag that there was also a skirmish of the same name in 1870. To give one example, it thinks Guatemala is bigger than Honduras. That is partly because ChatGPT in its current form still gets stuff wrong. However, some in the education sector are more relaxed about AI tools in the classroom, and some even sense an opportunity rather than a threat.
"While the tool may be able to provide quick and easy answers to questions, it does not build critical-thinking and problem-solving skills," said the department's Jenna Lyle.Ī group of Australian universities said they would change exam formats to banish AI tools, regarding them as straight-up cheating. New York City's education department banned ChatGPT on its networks because of "concerns about negative impacts on student learning". It can write a half-decent essay and answer many common classroom questions, sparking a fierce debate about the very future of traditional education. Alarm among educators has reached fever pitch in recent weeks over ChatGPT, an easy-to-use artificial intelligence tool trained on billions of words and a ton of data from the web.
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