When AI throws education into chaos, Openai introduces a “learning model” to help students “learn”
AI has been accused of cheating tsunami occupied by the U.S. education system in recent years. Just this week, I interviewed a university professor who explained the bad things recently, especially when writing papers generated by AI. Now, Openai, a heavy hitter in the AI industry, said it is launching a tool designed to help students learn things instead of passively accepting suspicious information provided by chatbots.
“Today, we are introducing learning patterns in Chatgpt – a learning experience that can help you solve problems step by step, not just get answers,” the company wrote in a blog post published on Tuesday. Openai said the service can now be used for “login users” and offers free, Plus, Pro and Team Tiers accounts. The company added that in the coming weeks, the service will also launch Chatgpt Edu, an account tier dedicated to using it on university campuses.
According to the company, the learning model should attract students’ questions and answers. The research model is designed through its quasi-official nature, rather than an AI version of the content that involves slack copy and paste of content generated by the chatbot to maintain the user’s mental activity (at least theoretical, at least theoretical). The company claims that students “experience guidance questions” that “calibrate answers to their objective and skill levels to help them build a deeper understanding.” The post says: “The learning model is designed to be engaging and interactive and help students learn something, not accomplish something.”
Openai also deals with the fact that its own industry is related to automatic cheating in colleges and high schools, and writes that AI “use of education also raises an important question: How do we ensure it is used to support real learning and not only provide solutions without helping students understand them?” The company claims that the tool’s code was created through the opinions of “teachers, scientists and pedagogical experts” to root the process in the world of (human) education.
I think it’s great that Openai created a tool designed to make students use their brains, but the real question is how many students actually use it. The thing is, the kids are cheating because it is Simple. Intrinsically motivation for learning may find it another useful research tool, but recent research claims that the concurrent use of AI in research may lead to a shallower mastery of the topic being studied.
