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I tutor high school kids during the school year. They’re already ahead of this. They love asking ChatGPT for help on their homework. They’d rather get an AI to explain it to them than ask their teacher. They like that they can just keep asking as many questions about details as they want. They like that ChatGPT will not only give them general information but also tell them step by step how to do different kinds of projects.
Many of them have also lost a lot of respect for their teachers. They see the gaps in their teachers’ knowledge and they get extremely frustrated when a teacher penalizes their grades for not doing things exactly the way the teacher wants. This latter thing has been an annoyance for students since time immemorial but now they have more access than ever to outside opinions from resources like ChatGPT and other teachers’ lessons on YouTube.
As for hallucinations? These kids aren’t phased by them. They’re already used to their teachers telling them the wrong thing quite often. They probably trust the AI more than the teachers at this point!
This is terrifying.
I think the people that have the most to fear from ChatGPT are at Google’s search team. Young people are turning more and more to ChatGPT because Google search results have gotten so bad.
Teachers should be responding to all this by giving kids more time to read books in class. No tech policies at schools are also a big help. With no phones, laptops, or iPads in schools, kids will he forced to talk to and engage with their peers instead of scrolling social media.
The one thing I’m really afraid of is that kids will lose the ability to write without technological help. Perhaps teachers need to move to more in-class, pencil-and-paper writing assignments instead of essays at home.
Depending on the subject, I'm less likely to get a bad hallucination than misleading advertisements and SEO pages full of AI garbage (or worse) anyway.
Everything AI tells me, I take with a grain of salt. I can look up further information on Google if need be, but I think largely AI has been easier, much faster, and better at just answering a simple question than Google.
What actor played this role? Interesting, what else were they in? Hey, what is the name of this object picture?
It even goes and does searches for you, evading at least the advertisements, and distills the results. I think it's at least as handy as Google search.