“This is a big tidal wave for scholars.”
That’s how Paso Robles High School English teacher Aaron Cantrell describes ChatGPT, a new artificial intelligence program that is spoken by classrooms across the country. The program has sparked a conversation among teachers at Paso High since its launch on November 30, 2022. Developed by San Francisco-based OpenAI, ChatGPT has the ability to create human-like written responses to questions or requests asked by users.
When Cantrell began exploring ChatGPT, he said he knew it was a “force to be reckoned with.”
“I asked him to write all the essays I gave to my students this year,” he said. “A good team of them did well in 15 seconds on each of them. I said, ‘Wow, we’re going to have a conversation about this because it’s a bit of a game changer.”
The way it works is simple – ask ChatGPT to write anything like a text message or even a cover letter. Within 15 seconds ChatGPT offers that make it easy for students to cheat. A survey conducted by study.com shows that 89 percent of survey respondents said they used the platform to help with homework.
Paso Cosmo Toohey-Bergvall High School student explained that ChatGPT was blocked on the school’s Wi-Fi as well as the student’s Google account, making it impossible for students to access apps on Chromebooks provided by the school. They are far from school.
Toohey-Bergvall said the program lacks “personal touch” when it comes to writing articles, but noted that it can be good for “busy” tasks.
“[It’s] A very useful tool that can create a large number of articles, push people out in a certain direction, inspire them, or generally serve as a basis for your writing, rather than as an object that can create whatever you need from Toohey- “It has to be taken care of and maintained in the right direction,” Bergvall said.
Cantrell said there could be a way to use AI software that facilitates practical learning.
“What can we do to be able to use some of the AI functions to do research?” Cantrell said. “I do not think there is anything right to go through a catalog of cards or a search engine and find those things and put them in order. Maybe that part we can outsource to the machine. But then a collection of ideas. All this and some driving of arguments can be saved by people.
Ryan Jenkins, an associate professor of philosophy at Cal Poly, says any integration of chatbots into education should be handled with caution.
“I think it has significant potential to eliminate some of the value of going through college. For example, if you get to the point – so the end of the spectrum – that AI is writing your article for you. It’s not clear. It’s different from me than having a classmate hand you an article. “” That means these two really do not. “Challenge students to reflect on their own beliefs to work through different puzzles.”
There are not many pirated programs that are equipped to deal with text written by AI. By far the most popular detector so far is called GPTZero, developed by 22-year-old Princeton student Edward Tian.
Because of this new technology, teachers and administrators at Cal Poly are divided on how to handle the use of ChatGPT.
Jenkins said, “I think you see all kinds of responses from Chicken Little ‘The sky is falling’ responds to people who are embracing it openly.” In the middle I think you have a lot of people saying Look, we can not resist this. You know, we can’t stop students. [from] Remember that this technology exists. ”
While there has been no official guidance from Cal Poly managers regarding what to do with ChatGPT, Jenkins said there have been several “clashes” within the department.
However, Cal Poly computer science professor Franz Kurfess began using ChatGPT as a learning tool. In his computer-assisted classes for knowledge management, Kurfess encourages his students to compare their proposals with the version developed by ChatGPT.
“A few students have already tried it and the results have been mixed. Therefore, some of them said they were really interested because the results that ChatGPT provided were unreasonable, but then the student requests may Not perfect, “Kurfess said. “Other students said it was unusable. And it was too early to conclude, but my suspicion is that the students who did not get good results had a very technical subject.”
One of the students who experimented with ChatGPT was fourth-year computer engineer Brett Gowling, who discovered the chatbot’s capabilities and its shortcomings through a presentation he made for the Kurfess class.
“I think the main problem you have to avoid with students using this is the direct acceptance of their own AI results. Say. “But the text should be significantly modified to make it your own, or it should be a live quote if it will remain unchanged and you have to give credit then to the chatbot.”
In an effort to facilitate further conversations about the impact of ChatGPT in the field of education, Jenkins and his colleagues released a report on January 30 on standards for the use and provision of AI credit for contributions. Its for scholarships.
“There are a lot of documents that have been co-authored by ChatGPT and other major language models. So we have sorted out some principles about this and how to think about it from the point of view of scholars,” Jenkins said. “I think next time we will try to suggest some languages for the administration to spread to students.”
While it may be too early to predict what the future of education will look like with ChatGPT guidance, Jenkins said teaching methods will change.
“My concern is that this technology will start from the frontiers and reach the colonies or change the types of activities and assessments that we will have in the classrooms that are supposed to really attract people to think. Jenkins said. Δ
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