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All the teachers at wife’s school use it like crazy to help with writing crazy long report card comments for students. Usually a 40 hour task 6-8 times a year

All the teachers at wife’s school use it like crazy to help with writing crazy long report card comments for students. Usually a 40 hour task 6-8 times a year. School requires multiple paragraphs per student.

lucb1e 3y ago
I can't shake the feeling that we're going to pad everything with GPT-generated filler text only for other people to use GPT to distill the text again into a consumable summary, from websites to emails to, apparently, teacher evaluations. In some situations, there are social norms to be respected, but often the content rather than the form matters. So not a condolences card from your employer's HR department, but a report on how a student is doing and how to potentially improve. Does it actually help to write five keywords and have GPT fill it out to such a crazy long report card with no meaning beyond five keywords? Edit: Or do the teachers just rant a bunch to GPT (or feed it other kind of data, like from a report log like my old high school had) and then ask it to nicely format, professionalize, and remove redundant points? There I would see a beneficial use.
- asdff 3y ago
  Its like a game of telephone, only using a supercomputer and all the energy it needs.
- syntheweave 3y ago
  I would consider it equivalent to putting data into Excel to generate a report with visuals. There are a lot of cases where the data is the same data, but the "wrapper" is different for consumption purposes...and entering it by hand is time consuming and sometimes emotionally complex - e.g. if you are trying to articulate a specific challenge a student faces, it's easier to "talk to the chatbot" to generate completely new variations on what you meant to say than to sit at the word processor in a start-stop edit workflow. GPT, even 3.5, is very, very good at putting new wrappers on things. It's much better at that than at solving logical challenges or acting as an oracle. If you need that for work, you'll probably already be among the adoptees.
ilrwbwrkhv 3y ago
This seems so dangerous and this was my fear. Things will become meaningless especially in education.
- faeriechangling 3y ago
  The education was meaningless the whole time as it turns out.
tssva 3y ago
That seems insane to me. My daughter's report card has one of about 5 canned single line comments which teachers can choose from. Occasionally we will get an email with some further input around report card time. My daughter is in high school now but this has been the same since elementary school.

lucb1e 3y ago

I can't shake the feeling that we're going to pad everything with GPT-generated filler text only for other people to use GPT to distill the text again into a consumable summary, from websites to emails to, apparently, teacher evaluations. In some situations, there are social norms to be respected, but often the content rather than the form matters. So not a condolences card from your employer's HR department, but a report on how a student is doing and how to potentially improve. Does it actually help to write five keywords and have GPT fill it out to such a crazy long report card with no meaning beyond five keywords? Edit: Or do the teachers just rant a bunch to GPT (or feed it other kind of data, like from a report log like my old high school had) and then ask it to nicely format, professionalize, and remove redundant points? There I would see a beneficial use.

asdff 3y ago
Its like a game of telephone, only using a supercomputer and all the energy it needs.
syntheweave 3y ago
I would consider it equivalent to putting data into Excel to generate a report with visuals. There are a lot of cases where the data is the same data, but the "wrapper" is different for consumption purposes...and entering it by hand is time consuming and sometimes emotionally complex - e.g. if you are trying to articulate a specific challenge a student faces, it's easier to "talk to the chatbot" to generate completely new variations on what you meant to say than to sit at the word processor in a start-stop edit workflow. GPT, even 3.5, is very, very good at putting new wrappers on things. It's much better at that than at solving logical challenges or acting as an oracle. If you need that for work, you'll probably already be among the adoptees.

ilrwbwrkhv 3y ago

This seems so dangerous and this was my fear. Things will become meaningless especially in education.

faeriechangling 3y ago
The education was meaningless the whole time as it turns out.

tssva 3y ago

That seems insane to me. My daughter's report card has one of about 5 canned single line comments which teachers can choose from. Occasionally we will get an email with some further input around report card time. My daughter is in high school now but this has been the same since elementary school.