Chat GPT: 2 years after the explosion

[@Change-1820]

Excellent video my friend. I am a huge fan of Khanmigo's approach for education (built on Chat GPT). I'd be interested in your thoughts. Guided inquiry seems much more useful for me.

[@BryanAlexander]

I'm honestly surprised we haven't seen more apps like Khanmigo. out there. Perhaps there are a bunch of small startups I've missed?

[@sovorel-EDU]

Great minds think alike. I, too, made a video to mark ChatGPT's birthday: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZ7Zi32cfKqWebM. My video provides a quick history and then talks about the future of OpenAI/ChatGPT and AI in general. I, too, very much think that we need more study in the field of AI and human relationships. Thank you for your views and awsome summary of very important aspects dealing with this revolutionary technology in education.

[@thepostgradyear]

this is mostly a school focused fear rant comment lol I worry that we're going to be stuck in a gray area for a long time. When I was in school, we were assigned a large number of books to read. It kept us very busy. The problem was - those who simply read the books got the lowest grades, the middle grades went to those who used sparknotes, and the highest went to the people who did both. It may be that students and faculty end up taking shortcuts to complete their work; and, push us into a space where approximate knowledge of many things is simply many times stronger than actual concrete knowledge. I worry that students are going to figure out how to use slightly more powerful and focused LLMs which can easily assess lists of which books and other media the individual teacher puts value in. If that is true there might be yet another level of grading nonsense. A level in which the students simply enter the school name to get the reading list for 10th grade, but also all years beforehand. Weight within the LLM could be directed towards: 1. the book they have the assignment on 2. the books for the year 3. all books covered within that school system 4. the favorite bits of media of the specific teacher My experience with AI is very limited. So I don't know if something like this is possible. But if it is possible, and we go from 3 student groupings to 5, it might be that the people who actually read books and only read books end up in the bottom 20% of the class. It feels like indexing (or simply knowing things) is continuing to lose value over simply generating new information. In some ways it might be better to simply read 10,000 posts and get the vibes of everything - but it feels like understanding is no longer linked to an increasingly large number of scores. Why remember anything when the computer has perfect recall? idk why little kids would do it the hard way and eventually those kids will grow up

[@BryanAlexander]

Good to hear from you again! Limited AI experience: if you have time, explore a bit more. Check out Perplexity and Claude. Make images with Midjourney. Try some of the stuff I talk about in my Substack. You've hit on a real problem of assessment, assignments, cheating. We really don't have a good response right now: can't detect AI-written text reliably, haven't changed assessment. Sparknotes, Monarch Notes, etc. are slightly different from AI in that they are pitched to tests. AIs aren't so clearly aligned.

[@jbloch10]

Do you think the resistance is as great in developing countries?

[@BryanAlexander]

No, I'm seeing it mostly in the developed world.

[@jbloch10]

@@BryanAlexander so am I

[@BryanAlexander]

@@jbloch10 Most of what I've seen from the developing world in interest, especially for job training.

[@charlessykes7161]

AI for the sake of AI.

[@BryanAlexander]

Can you say more, please? Do you mean that companies are pushing hard on AI for its own sake, rather than to (say) solve problems or improve civilization?