A few days ago I discussed #chatgpt with @ChrisMayLA6. I said that it might do your GCSE homework, but it couldn't write an undergrad essay.

Turns out I was optimistic. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-651673

It can't write an entire essay, but it can act as an assistant drafting chunks for you, and you get better marks. Also one student found it explained things better than some of his lecturers. #ai

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I'm confused. you mean you were pessimistic, right? LLMs can be more effective than you had thought

@2ck I meant that my belief that ChatGPT wasn't already degrading undergraduate courses was optimistic.

@tokensane I'm not clear on how the course was degraded if students understand the course material at the end. My question would be on whether the students discriminated between correct and incorrect assertions the LLM constructed when they wrote their essays. It's like, when I use glide typing on my phone keyboard: I can still identify and correct errors while saving some effort in typing. Another analogy I like is to the calculator: if I don't know which calculations to do, or if I input the wrong numbers, my lack of knowledge will still show on examination when I fail to realize my answer doesn't check out.

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