Chat GPT can do amazing work.
My wife and I are teaching classes for a church and a non profit, totally separate .
In the past month we used Chst GPT to design coursework for what we are doing .
It created exactly what we wanted with just a 2 sentence query.
I post this to anyone who doesn’t think it’s a useful tool to use.
I agree - I am amazed at how well it takes my prompts and spits out high-quality results.
And yes, ChatGPT does listen for your tone and respond in kind. It will also tailor the level of detail in your responses to the level of detail in your queries. If you ask a generic question, you’ll get a generic answer. If you’re very specific in your query, you’ll get an incredibly detailed response.
Recently, I asked for a document I could present as a draft Christian adult education proposal to my church. I told them I was an elder, what my denomination is, and the general makeup of my congregation.
The result was an 8-page document complete with Scripture references, outlines for example teaching plans - all tailored to my situation. I found no holes in it at all.
Your mileage may vary.
So you had an opportunity not to think about your course.
And let the process expand and change you.
Instead you became the conduit to provide materials to your class.
This is backwards.
You need to run your questions through several AI programs because they sometimes give opposing answers.
Even with mundane subjects such as microbiology or chemistry, so you have to ask for citations to see where they get their information.
For instance this morning I asked about DNA in a pathogen and it referenced a publication about introducing RNA into that pathogen’s cells.
There are many here who have not used AI models for any useful purposes, and they mostly have no clue how useful they can actually be. The criticism that you will receive from them typically has no connection to reality even if it is worded in a way that sounds reasonable. What can you really expect from someone who spouts off about something that they have no experience with.
My 88-year-old father was giving me a load of uninformed idiocy about AI chatbots. So, I opened Grok using Perplexity AI on his computer while he cowered in a corner across the room from me. I started asking it questions about topics that he often asks me about. It responded not just with the same answers similar to what I usually tell him, but with sources from the many websites that Grok got the answers from. After a few minutes of this he became hooked. And now he does not call me as much... is this good or bad? I don’t know, but it is fairly typical.
It’s very useful. I’m a writer and what used to take me weeks in a library, now takes minutes. Of course, I double check everything carefully, but it’s been very helpful.
I use it in technology all the time.
e.g. compare and contrast tech A vs alternate tech B in use-case C.
It’ll produce comparison matrices with all the types of detail I’d expect. It’s not perfect, but usually, knowing what types of prompts to provide, you can point out omissions or errors (yes, you have to review!) and it’ll get to the right result.
Saves days/months of work.
within the next decade, it will put most people out of jobs.
Universal income is being bandied about, for better or for worse.