Education community is certainly freaking out about ChatGPT, mainly about issues of academic honesty. I'm hopeful that it will move some teachers out of the dark ages of homework philosophy. Homework should be a resource for students to get better, not something to be assessed.
One thing I don't like is the blackbox nature of it. I wish I could ask 'how do you know that?' and get something like wikipedia citations. Using your analogy: I want to know where the coffee grounds come from so I could theoretically go find the farm if I wanted to (even though I won't).
Yeah, education is going to have to adapt, and I'm not sure what it's going to end up looking like (especially because I've been away from academia for so long). Every new technology, from radio, to TV, to even clay tablets (see: Jon Stewart https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRqrtPJf/) is extremely disruptive at first.
Your point about the blackbox nature of it really gets to the crux of the issue. Because even the developers don't know exactly how each answer is made. The algorithms are so complex that it's impossible to follow. Hopefully there will be at least some way to check against plagiarism in the short term, but I'm not that optimistic about it in the long run. And I don't know exactly what that'll mean for education...
Education community is certainly freaking out about ChatGPT, mainly about issues of academic honesty. I'm hopeful that it will move some teachers out of the dark ages of homework philosophy. Homework should be a resource for students to get better, not something to be assessed.
One thing I don't like is the blackbox nature of it. I wish I could ask 'how do you know that?' and get something like wikipedia citations. Using your analogy: I want to know where the coffee grounds come from so I could theoretically go find the farm if I wanted to (even though I won't).
Yeah, education is going to have to adapt, and I'm not sure what it's going to end up looking like (especially because I've been away from academia for so long). Every new technology, from radio, to TV, to even clay tablets (see: Jon Stewart https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRqrtPJf/) is extremely disruptive at first.
Your point about the blackbox nature of it really gets to the crux of the issue. Because even the developers don't know exactly how each answer is made. The algorithms are so complex that it's impossible to follow. Hopefully there will be at least some way to check against plagiarism in the short term, but I'm not that optimistic about it in the long run. And I don't know exactly what that'll mean for education...