ChatGPT–A Learning Accelerator

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Thank you for reading this article you beautiful—and Intelligent readers!

You may or may have yet to hear about ChatGPT. I’m going to break down what this tool is • how it works • and how you might use it.

Here is a definition from Wikipedia:

“ChatGPT is a chatbot launched by OpenAI in November 2022. It is built on top of OpenAI's GPT-3.5 family of large language models and fine-tuned with supervised and reinforcement learning techniques.”

Here’s Jacob’s Definition:

“ChatGPT is a chatbot one can access through a text prompt–you type or dictate to it. It’s a language model A.I., designed to understand human language—Version 1.0 of the Star Trek Computer if you will. It can generate content and answer questions. The outputs are a function of the inputs. So I would be suspect of the inputs •and• the outputs; however, the power of this machine is obvious once you use it.”

This article will be a bit different than most of my articles: I’m going to let A.I. do the heavy lifting. Instead, I will give you use cases to wrap your head around what this technology can and can’t do. I HIGHLY recommend you get familiar with this stuff. It isn’t going away and will dominate the future—for better or worse.

ChatGPT as a primary school teacher—Or teacher’s assistant.

Sorry previous Images were Night Shifted

Okay. So there’s some English. How about math?

Okay—That’s pretty good. Different math?

A.I. Generated Sun

Did you know the Sun is really white? OMG

How about learning a new concept from the prompt?

Hmmm… How about History?

Create a picture of King Hammurabi.

King Hammurabi holding the Code of Hammurabi

How about we ask ChatGPT to create a test based on what it said?

Here’s the prompt I used. Unfortunately, it was too messy for a screenshot to make sense.

Take the report on King Hammurabi, and create an eight question test. Have seven of the questions be multiple choice a, b, c, d, and have one essay question at the end.

Not bad, not bad—However, it’s time to end this lesson. I’ve already passed the email size limit, which typically isn’t good for newsletters.

This article was designed to illustrate how A.I. can be a learning accelerator. It can be used by students, teachers, and anyone, to learn more about a subject. Play with it.

I understand that there will be problems with cheating and various other shenanigans; however, those aren’t the significant issues with this technology.

The issues are:

Who writes the history, and who writes the algorithm? If something like ChatGPT becomes •the• go-to for information—All the books in the world won’t matter—Even if they’re right. What matters is the codebase.

It would be best if you thought of these things as technological artifacts. They are going to be around—Forever. What if it gets stuff wrong, or we teach A.I. to lie to us?

I’m going to write a great deal about this in the future. However:

No black pills! This article is about being inspired by this technology. It isn’t going anywhere, and the early adopters will win the future.

If you want to play with it—Here’s the URL.

https://chat.openai.com/chat