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education opportunities that chatgpt will bring us
Our warning to users is that just because this tool can generate a coherent response that follows the syntactic, grammatical, and structural rules of many different languages does not mean it is true or complete. As humans, we tend to take a basic approach to accepting an argument—the more coherent a speech or text is, the more likely we are to take it as valid.
Confusing coherence with truth can lead to disastrous mistakes. Since some of the information from the original source can be biased, invalid, or unreliable, and, since it is not reviewed for validation, AITGs can generate coherent answers that have wrong or biased responses.
The potential of ChatGPT presents intriguing opportunities for education. As most of us would agree, academia must continue to shift from unidirectional knowledge transfer to an active development of competencies, experience, social abilities, and technological agility. Access to information has democratized knowledge acquisition, and ChatGPT may synthesize the use of various sources, albeit not without a potential bias.
On January 21, the Financial Times published an article commenting on a paper published by a Wharton Business School professor that describes how the author, Christian Terwiesch, tested ChatGPT3 on an exam in a core course of his MBA program. The bot ChatGPT earned a solid grade (between B and B-) and outperformed most of the actual students in the course.
Obviously, these kinds of situations represent a challenge for universities and business schools; but instead of taking ChatGPT as a threat, educators and their institutions should nevertheless analyze its advantages and use them in favor of the student to achieve their educational objectives.
Here are five ways AITGs can be used in a participant-centered learning process.
