It's important that students and teachers become educated, even just slightly, about what ChatGPT is really doing and how it works. Fundamentally, ChatGPT oper

It's important that students and teachers become educated, even just slightly, about what ChatGPT is really doing and how it works. Fundamentally, ChatGPT operates by predicting the most likely word to follow previous words. By doing so, it generates text that largely makes sense. By itself, it does not try to give correct answers to factual questions. It simply generates likely text based on its training distribution. And it incorporates randomness to generate variability, according to the distribution, so that it doesn't just regurgitate the same answer verbatim every time.