I 'borrowed' the (ten year old) daughter of a friend and sat her down in front of ChatGPT to see what would happen, proposing she ask for help with her homework

I 'borrowed' the (ten year old) daughter of a friend and sat her down in front of ChatGPT to see what would happen, proposing she ask for help with her homework. And yes, the first thing she did was see if it could literally answer it for her. It did. However, once that was done with she proceeded to massively expand the scope of the original homework... I've rarely seen anyone her age as enthused with learning, they're usually already tired of school. Yes, I was standing by to fact-check it, but it didn't actually make any mistakes. Which is a little unfortunate, I guess... I'd been planning to stress the importance of cross-checking. Oh well. It generally seems to get everything right at the level of questioning children are usually capable of. (Half an hour later she was asking it why water expands when it freezes. Fifteen minutes after that we were reading a wikipedia article on molecular physics... I dare say this was a productive evening.) --- I think ChatGPT is an incredible resource for learning, and trying to keep it out of schools is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. It does better at teaching than the teachers often manage.