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Wouldn't the alternative be to reconsider the merits of the 40 hour bimonthly task? If I'm understanding right, your wife is coming up with some bullet point s
by baumy 4y ago
Wouldn't the alternative be to reconsider the merits of the 40 hour bimonthly task?
If I'm understanding right, your wife is coming up with some bullet point style feedback about each of her students as part of a recurring evaluation, then using ChatGPT to generate lengthy prose from those bullet points.
Hailing ChatGPT as a savior here feels something like the tail wagging the dog. Why not just change the nature of the task so that what's required is to provide the quick bullet points, instead of using language model prose generation as a go-between for communication from teacher to student? What value is being added by the middle ChatGPT layer? More importantly, what value was being added by the 36 hours of marginal effort previously spent doing this manually?
That's one of my main hang ups with all the proposed use cases of ChatGPT - it seems we've created arbitrary problems and now have this complicated tool to solve them. Which in turn will enable us to keep making bigger and more arbitrary problems. But the problems don't need to exist in the first place
- wpietri 4y agoExactly. If the only valuable part is the "general points that are relevant", then I would much rather receive those. As you say, perhaps in bullet points. Adding a bunch of utterly predictable prose around that doesn't make it better for me, it makes it worse, because it just dilutes the signal.