I like your ideas for how it can be used in the classroom. This idea of embracing it and using it as a teaching tool is something I have also been telling people.
Most of my friends in education tell me that the essays it spits out are full of errors and can be easily spotted by a teacher who is paying attention. Or some variation of that argument. My argument to them is not only what you write (that with better commands, it can produce better text) but that this is just the beginning and AI will improve much more from here, so just saying "we can be smarter than the AI and recognize it" is very shortsighted and not very useful.
This will radically change education. It will be very interesting to see what it leads to in the years to come.
I hope it does radically change education. I feel that the pandemic and now this are forcing us to do just that, but some are digging their heels in. There's a lot of teachers out there that are too lazy, tired, stupid of time poor or all of above to manage this new world and are certainly afraid. It's a big shake up.
Prompt engineering is definitely the skill of this new age. The brighter kids will do it easily. Others will not have to wait long for the AI to get better.
So far the essays I have got it to write are pretty good. If you didn't know the student or they were good writers to start with, you might find it hard to pick. I found it better at passage or poetry analysis... Feed it a paragraph, say, and prompt 'analyse the theme of the horror of war" or 'analyse the use of light and dark" and it works very well. General prompts create general responses.
It's so fascinating I almost wish I was back in English staff meeting this week to talk about it with colleagues. Almost. My hubs teaches Physics so that's interesting too. I played with it for hours last night - I believe I could write a study guide for a test in a week with the help of AI. I MIGHT even try to do so.
Yeah I hope it changes education too. We need a new model. I mean the current one is more or less the Prussian model of two centuries prior with patches and tape to keep it going in the modern world. We really need a new model of education. If AI forces the change it will be doing us a huge favor.
I did the same with it. I chatted with it about Japanese history, haiku, poetry in general, theater, kabuki, literature, and philosophy. Needless to say I could catch many errors, but I was impressed nevertheless, especially in that it learned when I would correct it and it remembered the corrections, so it improved. It was most impressive with code. Well, I haven't coded since uni so I'm out of date, but I put whatever it gave me in xcode and compiled it and it ran! It also gave me a lot of instructions for accessing HiveSQL using python, but I didn't try to verify that. All in all, very impressive bot.
Wow, I wish I knew more about code to get it to write code, if you know what I mean..
Seems like you are a bit like me, going straight to literature to play. I tell you what it can't write good poetry for shit 😂 Perhaps haiku is a little different, or perhaps my prompting isn't very good. The fact it learns and remembers is so amazing.