slo’s WEDNESDAY 6/4 poll - ChatGPT

[Praise2Him]

I’ve used it to plan an itinerary for Universal Hollywood Mario Land, write devotionals for my quilting group, and most recently to make a packing list for my 3 week trip to Africa this summer.
It’s great for what I use it for and I should use it more, but I tend to forget about it.

 

[lovin'fl]

My girls use it but I am not interested.

 

[neverlandsky]

Haven’t and won’t use it. Gen Z kids use it.

 

[clappyclaps]

I haven't used it but I wouldn't mind trying to if I think of something to use it for. I tend to be stuck in my ways and my default tends to just be Googling everything or doing my own research.

 

[georgina]

Nope. Looking at your little chart, there is NO WAY I would trust it for fact checking! And the idea of using it as social interaction is horrifying. I hate chatbots I encounter for customer service.

 

[AppleDumpling]

Don’t use it. Can’t say I’ll never use it, but know nothing about it at the moment.

 

[tvguy]

I am curious about it, but can't figure out how to find it or use it.
I see people post things that were apparently created by it, and I do see some entertainment value in it.
Asking it to do strange things, like generate bad advice on a topic does tend to be entertaining.

 

[leebee]

No interest. If I can't be bothered to look up "Things to do in the city I'm visiting" and read a list, well... That's what the internet is for, IMO>

We are having a lot of issues with AI in our classes. It is obvious that the students are using it to write the discussions in their lab reports, but we really cannot prove anything. I am tired of spending time grading work that isn't original, and the students aren't really learning anything. The situation is being addressed by the faculty, and I think we are going to have to completely revamp the way we assess the course.

 

[jalapeno_pretzel]

I use it frequently for personal use. Itinerary planning, menu planning, goal setting, project ideas and task breakdown and timelines have been the majority of my use.

It doesn't seem like that big of a deal, just kind of a more efficient / streamlined way to look things up and help organize my thoughts. For instance, I've used it to figure out how to do a few things in Excel ... rather than me searching through their enormous help pages for the function I need, I just typed in "how do I combine the text in these two cells and add a comma in between, and it gave me an immediate answer, and then when I put in "it didn't work it just displays the formula!" it instantly told me to update the cell formatting and how to do that. So what could have taken 5-10 minutes for me to find what I needed was all resolved in about a minute or less.

 

[_19disnA]

Never used and not interested. Even those online 'customer service' chat-bot things I find annoying. Tried using one the other day since the company no longer has an 800# on their website. The computer kept providing answers to a different question than what I was asking. Was FINALLY able to get a real person to chat with who actually understood my question. Virtually ALL of these I have ever tried using online seems useless and need a LOT more development before expecting that to be how customers interact when they have questions about a product/service. Many seemed rushed into use without enough testing. My idea of 'customer service' is being able to actually interact with someone who understands my question and knows enough to be able to answer.

If a company isn't willing to provide knowledgeable 'customer service', I would prefer they just don't offer any way to interact with them. Many times I can look around on line or on youtube to find the answer from people who actually know what they are talking about. Many customer service people seem to have been given ZERO training, can barely speak English, have never seen/used the product and appear to have been handed a list of the 10 most commonly asked questions/answers. If what you are asking isn't one of those, they frequently seem lost how to proceed.

I have given up trying to get answers to PC hardware/software questions from any of those customer service people. After telling me to reboot 5 times and clear my cookies/cache it becomes apparent they have NO idea how to solve the problem I am experiencing and I just find it a terribly frustrating waste of my time.

 

[monsterkitty]

No interest. If I can't be bothered to look up "Things to do in the city I'm visiting" and read a list, well... That's what the internet is for, IMO>

We are having a lot of issues with AI in our classes. It is obvious that the students are using it to write the discussions in their lab reports, but we really cannot prove anything. I am tired of spending time grading work that isn't original, and the students aren't really learning anything. The situation is being addressed by the faculty, and I think we are going to have to completely revamp the way we assess the course.

I used it when we planned our Germany/Austria trip last fall. I had already researched where we wanted to visit, but I used the feature to plan the best transportation routes.

I am so glad I retired before AI existed because it would be exhausting grading unoriginal work from students. My friends who are still teaching now require all essays, book reports, and lab reports to be written during class or using the district platform that they had developed several years ago.

 

[tvguy]

We are having a lot of issues with AI in our classes. It is obvious that the students are using it to write the discussions in their lab reports, but we really cannot prove anything. I am tired of spending time grading work that isn't original, and the students aren't really learning anything. The situation is being addressed by the faculty, and I think we are going to have to completely revamp the way we assess the course.

Well, the educational community had to adapt to the Internet, so they are going to have to come up with some policy with AI.
My son started high school in 2001 and websites were absolutely forbidden as a source in the bibliography of a paper. By 2005 when my daughter started at the same High School websites were acceptable as a source in the bibliography, but teachers had to make a judgement about whether the website was credible. Department of State, probably would have passed the test, the DIS.BOARDS probably would not have.

 

[soccerdad72]

No interest. If I can't be bothered to look up "Things to do in the city I'm visiting" and read a list, well... That's what the internet is for, IMO>

We are having a lot of issues with AI in our classes. It is obvious that the students are using it to write the discussions in their lab reports, but we really cannot prove anything. I am tired of spending time grading work that isn't original, and the students aren't really learning anything. The situation is being addressed by the faculty, and I think we are going to have to completely revamp the way we assess the course.

I believe TurnItIn now has an AI checker, similar to it's plagiarism tool.

 

[jalapeno_pretzel]

I believe TurnItIn now has an AI checker, similar to it's plagiarism tool.

I've heard the AI checkers aren't all that reliable, and will regularly flag things as AI that were not AI. I know of kids that run their original works through the AI checkers before turning in to verify they won't be flagged as AI by their teacher, and then end up having to modify their original work because the AI checker tells them it is some high probability of being AI! That hardly seems fair.

 

[soccerdad72]

I've heard the AI checkers aren't all that reliable, and will regularly flag things as AI that were not AI. I know of kids that run their original works through the AI checkers before turning in to verify they won't be flagged as AI by their teacher, and then end up having to modify their original work because the AI checker tells them it is some high probability of being AI! That hardly seems fair.

My son has done that recently (he's a rising college junior).

I joked with him that soon enough, there will be software developed to check whether someone's writing were previously checked by an AI-checking software (and the vicious cycle begins...).

 

[CGB]

My students write extensively in my history class, so I've played around with ChatGPT (as well as other AI) to understand it. I don't personally use it, but it is crazy impressive. I even challenged it with developing a queen-sized quilt pattern using star patterns and three fabrics. It took all of 30 seconds. AI concerns me, because humans love convenience and we'll compromise everything to have it.

(As for my 8th graders, I began getting AI-produced essays almost as soon it appeared. Now, all their exam essays are handwritten/typed on a locked-down Google form in class. Practice essays are still written outside of class and sometimes a student will "test the waters" to see if it will get by me. Darn that advanced vocabulary... )

 

[lovesmurfs]

I believe TurnItIn now has an AI checker, similar to it's plagiarism tool.

It does -- my school uses it. I also subscribe to Grammarly, and it has an AI detector if you upload a document.

 

[Kennywood]

 

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

I love it! So comprehensive, so useful, a real time saver!

 

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

If anything, it's a threat! I've tried it as a base for a hypnotic script, and it's spookily competent. It's not perfect, but it's getting there, and can actually formulate a decent base for therapy!