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> For example, students may use LLMs to complete written assignments, leaving instructors unable to accurately assess student learning. I'm one student using G
by pelasaco 4y ago
> For example, students may use LLMs to complete written assignments, leaving instructors unable to accurately assess student learning.
I'm one student using GPT to write my written assignments, and I cannot understand what is the issue with that. Even though it enhances the quality of my text, I cannot just copy, paste, submit and profit. I still have to understand what is being written. My workflow is normally the following:
- I ask for an outline to the essay. I use this outline as guide, remove some suggestion, add others that I think are important, rephrase some. I could as well google for similar written essays and do the same.
- Then I ask for the topics, please describe X, Y.. I read it, as a regular source. I understand it, and rewrite it. I add stuff, remove stuff, add references. Normally I endup rewriting everything
- Push the text through Grammarly, rephrase some stuff, check for plagiarism and submit it. I have to read and re-read it, many times.
I have the impression that I've got much more effective avoiding the mechanical part of the task of writing. In another hand my course has some stupid enforcement like 15k words/essay. So they are almost asking me to do some bullshit around the topic instead of going straight to the point. I simply automate the burden. As any software developer would do. I however study philosophy.
So i guess, it will help the universities and education institutions to rethink their traditional way of evaluate written assignments, which probably will be positive. It helps me definitely to write better.
- spikej 4y agoThe problem is that people aren't doing what you're doing, and ARE just copy/pasting whatever gets spit out. Using it to enhance your wording + thoughts is absolutely the way to make use of these tools.
- pelasaco 4y agoOk, but it's worse than copy and paste from internet, because not every thing that chatgpt writes make sense. Longer the output, higher the chances that it doesn't make sense.
- majormajor 4y agoHonestly this doesn't sound like any less work than just reading the sources and writing it myself in the first place. You seem to be doing just as much revising and writing, with a LOT more "read and re-read."
- pelasaco 4y agoYes, maybe because I'm studying because I want, as hobby,but in another hand,in my university the last examination, each semester, is oral, so if you don't know, you fail. So I have to learn.
- fernly 4y agoSee the more recent comment here by @skissane about using chatGPT to write fiction. Process sounds quite similar.
- pelasaco 4y agoAs would be with code too. You have to validate the code, integrate it to your codebase and understand it,since soon or later you will have to debug it in production