What is ChatGPT, and why does it have educators worried?

ChatGPT, a popular new computer program that will write whatever you want quickly and convincingly, has some worried over the potential of cheating in the classroom - leading some districts to ban the artificial intelligence on school devices. NBC’s Stephanie Gosk reports for TODAY.
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#ai #chatgpt #technology

[@DDR88767]

That asian kid is the type of kid who reminds their parents they forgot to punish em

[@Tracydot3]

As a former Reggio Emilia teacher and currently still an English teacher, I love that ChatGPT is forcing outdated school systems to modernize. Play-based learning approaches like Reggio, Waldorf and Montessori already have effective ways of teaching children English that is engaging for them and actually teaches them how to communicate and write well. Traditional schools are outdated and need to change completely. Homework and tests need to go. Children need to be encouraged to be inquisitive and seek information for themselves rather than be forced to waste their time doing stupid, mindless tasks because that's just how things have been done for the past 100+ years.

[@hearanecho]

Exactly

[@GoldenSpike300]

The conclusion at the end of this report hurts my brain. Instead of trying to put blocks around ways to get students not to use them, which is just like anything else in the history of humanity, they will figure out how to go around it. Why not motivate students, on wanting to do it for themselves, to actually understand the point of why they’re in school in the first place. To learn. And help them appreciate practice and learning. In high school whatever method you put in my way to not cheat, I went around, if I couldn’t and I didn’t care, I tried enough to pass. In university, when I actually cared and had a passion for what I was doing, I put my time into it and made things to help me learn as much as I could. Instead of motivating students into becoming better cheaters by finding a way to make their life easier, why not motivate students into doing things right to make their life easier through learning?

[@balsarmy]

Agree. That's a path towards degradation because people won't understand connections. We already have degradation effect from post truth

[@lemcollins1081]

Just don’t assign homework

[@hearanecho]

This part!!! Paying for college and I'm going home and teaching myself what's the point

[@ipettynote]

To the creator of chatgpt: we’re friends now 🤝

[@monadbornslippy]

Just make all tests hand written essays, just like we did back in the day.

[@caesarism.0813]

Have you seen the average student’s handwriting

[@larryshephard3045]

Make them write it in cursive too lol😂

[@retrac3147]

They might just copy what the ai says though

[@DarionNexus]

On site with proctor's

[@Geneiveve]

You made a valid point. That's eventually where we are headed- right back where we started. The ancient becomes the modern and the modern becomes the ancient. The cycle of nature and life.

[@Eleven_11]

that guy who developed it is not going to be liked among students lol

[@haydenfowle7576]

2:41 C- and didn't have to do the work I see that as an absolute win

[@ericchips9314]

No matter how advanced AI becomes, it will never be able to truly empathize with or care about you. When you're going through a tough time, talking to someone who has "been there" can be comforting. Sometimes, you just want someone to listen and care. While it's true that no one can fully understand somebody's situation or circumstances, because it's impossible for anyone to experience the world exactly the same way another has, it's still important to have someone who can empathize with you. Even though we may have certain generalizations in common, everyone experiences and perceives life differently. If a robot could talk to you in real-time using corresponding body language and cues, you would still know it's a robot and there's no substitute for human connection and empathy.

[@elsunshine9976]

Just you wait

[@trebenjamin]

Are you really Stephanie was actually funny af

[@manco828]

ChatGPT won't help these cheating kids when it comes to interview time at tech companies. They will all be weeded out.

[@DerekPK]

Just tried an old CHATGPT and it's super bad.

[@Jay-ef2ii]

A calculator for speech, Wow!

[@mjblazy]

School districts will get left behind if educators are not taught the benefits, ethics, learning, programming and biases. Students will use it anyway. School districts that provide professional development on AI's influence on education will be at the forefront of education and keep their students. If not, districts that are declining in enrollment will continue to be at a lose. Let's help education use AI as a Tool and not just a Transaction.

[@CallMeMilenko]

Some may think plagiarism will happen, but it can be avoided with the right prompts. I had an idea for a survival game where the theme was 5 years after a war between protesters, US military, and a foreign militia. I gave it a few prompts and asked it for a screenplay. ChatGPT wrote me a 1,500 word screen play. Setting up acts, locations, characters, and dialog. The only location I prompted was New York City. It started created different events that would take place in certain areas that I never mentioned.

[@maxpro751]

When ChatGpt advances, up to the point where it writes exactly and as accurately as a human then no plagiarism checker will be able to contest that. You can even tell chatGPT to be a certain IQ level so it writes much less professionally so the teachers can’t even tell. Btw, it’s not plagiarism because taking work from AI isn’t remotely considered plagiarism.

[@triky5384]

You may need GPT to help you write whatever you were trying to say. It's not entirely clear what you meant.

[@CallMeMilenko]

@@triky5384 It wrote a screenplay for a post war game idea.

[@hearanecho]

I asked chat gpt to spell check my paragraph and rewrote it entirely I was flaggasted at how well written it was I just chatgpts version

[@jasonv6319]

I think it revolves around us gatekeeping information from people who might be considered slow learners, which would disrupt the whole ecosystem of education Second us unwilling to accept that learning thru machine has more benefits than learning from a human because if its a human you work at a set pace opposite to Ai learning info and if your stuck on something it allows for more clarification A few other reason is thinking since its been done this way it should continue, which i find wrong because we are teaching kids more complex topics as young as 7 on stuff like gender rolls, and kids from the ages 7-13 are always asking questions, so using a toll for this level of knowledge will only increase intellect on a level far from what we have seen in human history I have a few more reasons but I’ll leave it at that

[@jc2044]

No one seems to looking into how weak “education” is, leaving some exceptions aside.

[@randythompson7109]

“On school technology” so we can still use it on our phones😂

[@Carson873RBLX]

so this is cheating but Grammarly isn't

[@Mrcharles.]

This could rupture our educational infrastructure and make us look weak if this system came out.

[@vinnydonfigueroa]

It’s all ready out…? The concern should be when and if becomes conscious. AGI GPT-3 is structured to have cognitive abilities.

[@joeljaen18]

Fernando Alonso Will win 33

[@Earthpeak]

As a former student of the US school system, if you’re thinking about using AI stuff to help you cheat, you should. The school system is broken and won’t help you. Your best bet is to just survive it.

[@abigailmcdonald3300]

so is google cheating too

[@DeidaraWife-ri5ry]

Yup

[@garybertagnolli7027]

Is using ChatGPT to write for you the modern day equivalent of how the calculator ended the need for doing math?

[@jasonv6319]

Yep😂😂

[@taehyung1233]

If you put it that way then yeah 😂

[@HenryCavillage]

You asked ChatGPT and computer find answer these informations are not from any website people put them on the internet.

[@alanaambroo]

Yeah, some of my friends told me about Chat GPT. It is a very helpful tool, especially for starting off ones code. However, I wouldn’t recommend using it on any sort of assignment. Remember at the end of the day that this is artificial intelligence, my friends, the plagiarism will be real. just don’t do it.

[@maxpro751]

Your dreaming, you can’t plagiarize AI generated work like chatGPT that writes so much like a human. In the end, you would end up plagiarizing innocent students. If your talking about long generated essays, then a plagiarism checker wouldn’t work since you can just cheat in certain parts and that would just render plagiarism useless (I’m referring to OpenAI and if they were to release their database of generated content to challenge people who cheat). The wide popularity of ChatGPT makes it where those millions upon millions of generated works get plagiarized and it simply is not possible to plagiarize all of those contents because it would basically make everything that you make plagiarized. Btw, why do refer ChatGPT to plagiarism? Taking work from an AI isn’t remotely plagiarism so your completely wrong.

[@Officialvvalentino]

Wow 😮 they’re going to expose that I don’t do sh*t 😂

[@nitinbhakta4787]

It is important to be aware that while ChatGPT can provide information, it should not be considered a definitive source, and any information it provides should be fact-checked. This is demonstrated by an example where a query about a specific film was provided, but the information returned pertained to a different film with the same title. This mistake occurred even though the two films differ vastly with distinct plots, characters, actors/actresses, and release dates. Furthermore, it can be inferred that the model does not have knowledge about the specific film queried, and that its source of knowledge might be limited to Wikipedia.

[@tammime]

Students caught using it should be immediately thrown OUT of school. It should be considered as plagiarism times a hundred.

[@drawnsequence]

All I wanna know is how can I be as happy as Edward Tian, that's a lot of smilin

[@343Floridamain]

south park

[@johnvillanueva1240]

i wish i had this in high school i wouldve had good grades

[@roguetaco5487]

What I don't understand is a simple solution to this. . . just have students write essays in person as the exam. Granting more leniency for citing a source, such as for a history class, with greater value on the quality of writing. I went to college over a decade ago and grad school after, guess what, we had in-class written essays for mid-terms. That was it! One 60-minute (or 90-minute) session on one of three possible questions the professor told us ahead of time to prepare for. No technology allowed. You brought some pens to write with and your brain. I know it may sound so archaic but for some schools out there, this may be the only way to combat plagiarism AND have students not rely on technology to assist them in applying knowledge / developing critical thinking skills. In life, we do rely on tech to help us. Yet how can younger students understand (such as the example Today used requesting ChatGPT to write a prompt) that what the ChatGPT system spits out may not be the best piece of writing for a particular scenario? Not that grammatically it isn't accurate but are certain words or phrases appropriate for every scenario? Personally, I still think that takes a human mind to determine.

[@Geneiveve]

I agree but many of them have terrible penmanship. They would have to give them updated " word processors" . Technology that they cannot use to access the internet. If they supply the word processors then I think that would work.

[@angelabreu1658]

Pay them more

[@rialisimo]

The way I see it, it's not like ChatGPT has the ability to cite academic sources, so as far as college assignments are concerned, I don't believe there's any reason to fear that ChatGPT will become an essay mill of any kind. Am I missing something?

[@taehyung1233]

Well believe me it’s helping college students 😂

[@Tracydot3]

It can cite sources, but students need to make sure those sources are real and not entirely made up since ChatGPT loves to make up random things.

[@hearanecho]

​@@taehyung12331000%

[@cryptomaddie]

This is Google all over again …

[@HardKore5250]

How so?

[@koadnonnash]

It "raises" the question not "begs" the question.

[@walkabout16]

In the realm of algorithms, where words take flight, ChatGPT emerges, a digital light. A program that writes with swift persuasion, Yet in the classroom, concerns take occasion. Educators worry, in the technological rhyme, What is ChatGPT, in the learning paradigm? A tool so convincing, it raises the alarm, A poetic exploration, where concerns may swarm. On school devices, a ban takes its stand, ChatGPT's potential, in the educational land. Swift and persuasive, in the digital prose, A poetic revelation, where uncertainty grows. Today reports, in the news' embrace, ChatGPT's impact on the classroom space. Cheating's specter, a concern profound, A poetic journey where ethics are found. So let the algorithms echo in the classroom's air, In the TODAY report, where concerns declare. ChatGPT's influence, in the educational test, A poetic insight, where questions invest.

[@greatgames5793]

Even if you do use wordai there is still a chance that teachers or anyone can catch you

[@julioobfan3737]

You are now worried? Make your own bot.

[@FaithfulFumoFan23]

"Edward" needs to mind his own business

[@taehyung1233]

Edward woke up on the wrong side of the bed

[@mrhoneystinger3676]

Ask Chatgpt to define a small bundle of sticks, and see what it comes back with

[@aaronjaggan]

10 years from now? Nah fam.. just one!

[@emmanuelzondi625]

🔥

[@jacksputrid]

Lmfao computers can do homework

[@djdigital3806]

College is joke today. Don’t waste your money.

[@genxer6928]

SkyNET terminator beta software

[@colemund2124]

Pencil and paper right there in the classroom. Problem solved.

[@lchaney]

Back to handwriting...

[@ybunnygurl]

Well I can copy something from a screen to handwriting no problem... Good luck to the person trying to read my handwriting however.

[@CallMeMilenko]

@@ybunnygurl Right. I type well over 100wpm but my handwriting looks like chicken scratch.

[@Ghostintheshell3551]

bruh , why are people creating this AI b.s ....

[@miarmitage87]

Or just not have this technology accessible to everyone?? This is a good example of technology gone too far and our complacency of it. We shouldn’t have to evolve around technology. It’s purpose should be to simplify - not take over.

[@Wanker59]

When A I replaces these fools it will be a great day for humankind

[@HardKore5250]

How so?