When I was studying journalism, we had an assignment called News Day, designed to replicate a day in the life of a journalist. You arrive at school in the morning and are assigned to submit a story by the end of the day. I forgot what my specific mission was in the story – it was 12 years ago – but it had something to do with it Climate change. What I remember, with painful clarity, is an interview with an academic who agreed to help me.
After about 10 minutes, I realize correctly from my questions that I didn’t understand the problem, whatever it was. He told me to call him again after I did some more research. It’s been 12 years and I still remember that incident every time I do an interview. Something like this has yet to happen again, perhaps because fear of repetition has compelled me to do more than the minimum possible search.
Journalism units made up a third of my communications degree. These units are designed to be as practical as possible, to mimic an actual press. Besides being wholly owned by an environmental science professor, I remember getting practical advice on who makes or doesn’t make a good resource, how to structure long-form articles and how to pitch articles to an editor.
On the flip side, I remember almost nothing of my communications lessons, which consisted of unwieldy dense texts and essays on topics like “language and discourse.” It’s a blur.
ChatGPT could easily pass these connections classes. On Tuesday, OpenAI announced that, thanks to a new update, the The ChatGPT chat bot is now smart enough Not only to pass the bar exam, but to score in the top 10%.
It’s easy to respond to that with fear or dread. I definitely had a moment of undirected dread. But that ChatGPT is technically qualified to practice law is not necessarily a sign of the AI apocalypse. It might even be a good thing.
It helps to remember what the premise of a large-language AI model like ChatGPT is to begin with. It is an artificial intelligence trained on massive sets of data, from web pages to scientific texts, which then uses a complex predictive mechanism to generate human-looking text. It’s amazing, and ChatGPT is impressive because it’s able to pass such a high-level challenge as the bar exam. But it is not the paradigm shift it may seem.
Exams are performances. They don’t test how much students know – they test how much students can cram into their brains and puke for a few hours. Much of this information is forgotten later, often gleefully. Examinations are more akin to tests of devotion than they are of knowledge. Of course, humans cannot compete with software when it comes to gathering information. But that is not the point of the exam.
It’s very funny to me that AI people think it’s impressive when their software passes a test after they’ve rehearsed all the answers
– Paris Marx (@parismarx) March 15, 2023
It’s a new world. Goodbye homework!
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 5, 2023
Exams as a format are still relatively safe, especially if schools go back to using a good pen and page. Homework and college essays on shaky ground.
ChatGPT scared away many educators. students in New York and Los Angeles Use of the app, as well as children, is prohibited in many Australian secondary schools. prestigious universities Oxford and Cambridgeyou’ve also blocked your friendly neighborhood chatbot.
Teachers’ anxiety over new technology is an old story. In the 1970s Some worried calculators would ruin math, but they actually made it easier to teach more complex equations. Artificial intelligence like ChatGPT can do a lot of homework, but so can Google. Artificial intelligence is brighter and more complex, but it is not a new threat. Teachers now tell kids not to cheat with ChatGPT, just like teachers told me not to use Wikipedia.
I didn’t listen. I used Wikipedia anyway. I still use Wikipedia. every day.
Asking me not to do so was unrealistic, just as it would be unrealistic to expect students not to take advantage of ChatGPT and the streaming services that Google, Microsoft, and Meta are about to release. Even if such a rule were applied, it would be counterproductive. If artificial intelligence is going to be a part of life, students had better figure out how best to work with it rather than against it. We all have a Luddite soul inside of us, but the actual Luddites battle was futile.
After years of AI hype, ChatGPT has solidified the notion that AI has the potential to disrupt many industries. But disruption can mean change rather than destruction. In many cases, this change will be for the better. Education is a prime candidate for improvement. The industry is notoriously slow moving, and it can be spurred on by AI without the risk of mass layoffs because teachers’ jobs are usually more secure than other jobs.
The question is whether high schools, colleges and universities will adapt to this challenge. Elon Musk chirp That may usher in artificial intelligence at the end of homework. maybe. What if education adapts? Essays may be substituted for presentations or practical assignments relevant to the field of study. In the remaining essay assignments, students can be distinguished more on their persuasiveness rather than their basic ability to convey course concepts.
If university courses, for example, can’t be made more practical, perhaps that’s a sign that they never taught anything practical in the first place.
If I could time travel and use ChatGPT in my undergraduate course, it would only help me cheat on tasks that were the least educational in the first place. It wouldn’t have made a difference to the journalism assignments that were already useful—ones that taught me to be prepared for interviews, to always use the rule of three and to end explanatory articles with a reference to the opening paragraph.
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