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The problem with using GPT for education is it isn't an intelligence, it is just a fancy pattern matcher. It is as likely to give you a wrong or bad answer as a
by jacobsenscott 4y ago
The problem with using GPT for education is it isn't an intelligence, it is just a fancy pattern matcher. It is as likely to give you a wrong or bad answer as a right answer. A student wouldn't be able to tell the difference, so they might learn the wrong stuff. It is handy for people with the experience to tell the difference though.
- visarga 4y agoOnly in closed-book mode. If you open the books and let it reference the materials it doesn't make stupid mistakes like that. What the model needs is a search engine and a curated index of materials.
- Jarwain 4y agoSo merging chatgpt with Google's knowledge graph?
- robocat 4y agoBut how much different is that from googling and getting a crappy stack-overthrow answer, or a poorly written blogpost? In the areas I am an expert in, the information I find is often incorrect, insufficient, inaccurate, invalid and often downright incredibly shitty. Still better than nothing? A bigger problem is that GPT depends on us all writing and publishing answers and examples, which we often do as part of our discovery or learning process. If we are just given answers, perhaps we won't publish answers, and then GPT will not have the material it requires for it to give its answers. Also we are mostly motivated to write because we have an audience: however with the intercession of GPT, the audience disappears and there is less motivation to publish.