CHATGPT TRANSFORMS THE WAY WE LEARN

Artificial intelligence has made significant strides in recent years, and one of the latest breakthroughs in this field of language models is ChatGPT.

This AI is a language model that will answer questions and prompts with data from the internet. Specifically, ChatGPT is designed to generate humanlike responses to a given question or task.

This technology is one of the first rolled out to a vast population. This January (2023), only two months after ChatGPT’s launch, it surpassed over 100 million active users. And every day, more than 13 million people use this free tool. With access to the internet, anyone can use ChatGPT to write essays, provide interview questions, or answer complex reading, writing, and math problems.

ChatGPT uses a vast amount of data to create a complex system that can understand prompts and generate humanlike answers. This model is trained and uses data based on hundreds of thousands of books, articles, and databases to generate answers. One of the most significant advantages of ChatGPT is its ability to understand the context of the situation and generate responses that are appropriate for that given situation. This means that it can be used in various applications, including customer service jobs and language translation tools.

With this new AI’s power, many wonder how it will affect industries and fields such as education and journalism.

In education, ChatGPT has a significant potential to be used by students and teachers alike to create and complete assignments and courses. For example, it could be used to brainstorm ideas for an essay or answer questions on tough subjects, such as chemistry, so that a student could easily understand it. It could also be used by teachers and professors to answer students’ questions, generate lecture plans and outlines, and help professors develop study materials like flashcards and pre-exams quickly and accurately.

There also are many drawbacks and pitfalls to this new technology. For example, this AI has been known to provide wrong answers and incorrect explanations of topics. For some observers, it is much harder to trust that ChatGPT will be factual and accurate to the level of popular search engines such as Google or Bing.

With the ability of ChatGPT to influence formal education, many instructors have been very concerned about how students will use this new tool to complete their assignments. Concerns stem from students using this AI to write long, elaborate essays without the student’s real voice ever used, or worries students will use this technology to get answers to science and literature exams.

Even so, others see the positive potential of ChatGPT and where it could be used in a way that would still allow students to learn and retain information – accepting the fact that students in the classroom will use AI.

One writing instructor at Mt. Hood Community College has an interesting take on using ChatGPT in the classroom.

“(I)t’s like Wikipedia, where you can learn general things from it, especially for getting clarity on an assignment or concept,” said veteran teacher Michele Hampton.

With this new language model being free and available to all, many students and professionals are going to be using this AI to help with projects and assignments. And with that reality, Hampton said she believes colleges and university’s need to “have more seminars to enlighten instructors on what its uses are, and then having instructors talk about the reality of it in class.”

Despite these concerns, the potential benefits of ChatGPT in education are clear. As AI technology develops and improves, it could become an essential tool for educators and students alike. Whether it’s used to provide personalized feedback, create interactive learning experiences, or help students develop their communication skills, ChatGPT has the potential to transform the way we teach and learn.