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As long as we keep having to ask, "ChatGPT answered this questions but was it right?" it is a nonstarter. It is currently a novelty, not a tool. To be a tool it needs to be reliable.
I’m still on the waitlist but I hear hallucinations have been largely solved already by connecting it to the internet with ChatGPT Plugins and telling it to verify its sources.
As long as we keep having to ask, "ChatGPT answered this questions but was it right?" it is a nonstarter. It is currently a novelty, not a tool. To be a tool it needs to be reliable.
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I’m still on the waitlist but I hear hallucinations have been largely solved already by connecting it to the internet with ChatGPT Plugins and telling it to verify its sources.
Unfortunately there is no way to test if every answer is correct. There's no magic plugin that "solves" this, because this is beyond P=NP.
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I’m still on the waitlist but I hear hallucinations have been largely solved already by connecting it to the internet with ChatGPT Plugins and telling it to verify its sources.
Unfortunately there is no way to test if every answer is correct. There's no magic plugin that "solves" this, because this is beyond P=NP.
At my day job we get a pretty good idea of the shortcomings of a typical teacher. We are also getting a very good, measurable, idea of what LLMs are capable of in this area. There’s skeptical, and there’s being in denial.
That won't work. The student can just ask ChatGPT to annotate the argument it generated itself previously (or in the same session).
Basically, as long as you're asking your students to turn in a written assignment, they can use ChatGPT to write the assignment. It doesn't really matter what you ask them to write, and how much of it you ask them to generate by ChatGPT or by the student's hand, the student can choose to have the whole thing generated by ChatGPT and there's nothing you can do about it.
>> In the past, Donahoe would set her students to writing assignments in which they had to make an argument for something—and grade them on the text they turned in. This semester, she asked her students to use ChatGPT to generate an argument and then had them annotate it according to how effective they thought the argument was for a specific audience. Then they turned in a rewrite based on their criticism. That won't…
Instead, students can now move on to more complex things. For example, maybe the teacher can have their 2nd graders use ChatGPT to reproduce a research paper on quantum computing and submit their results to a peer-reviewed scientific journal.
>> In the past, Donahoe would set her students to writing assignments in which they had to make an argument for something—and grade them on the text they turned in. This semester, she asked her students to use ChatGPT to generate an argument and then had them annotate it according to how effective they thought the argument was for a specific audience. Then they turned in a rewrite based on their criticism. That won't…
So what's the problem? If ChatGPT can do all that stuff then there's no reason to teach students how to do it. Same reason we don't teach assembly in programming classes anymore, since compilers can do that for us. Instead, students can now move on to more complex things. For example, maybe the teacher can have their 2nd graders use ChatGPT to reproduce a research paper on quantum computing and submit their results t…
In fact, the people working in those publications and tasked to review all the submissions, don't have to do that anymore. They can just feed the submissions to ChatGPT, and let ChatGPT generate a review for them.
See, there is no read to write anything anymore, and there's no need to read anything anymore, either. We can just let ChatGPT do all that stuff for us!
Of course, a few years down the line, there won't be any reason to submit, or publish, articles or anything else anymore, either, since there won't be anyone left who can actually read, besides ChatGPT, and that would be pointless if it will be ChatGPT that's produced all the writing already. But, I'm sure that all this will sort itself out in the long run.
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ChatGPT does not get full credit on the homework I create, even when the topic is some standard-ish algorithm with significant presence in the training data. Or maybe I'm just a bad prompt engineer.
What grade level is the homework you are creating?