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Younger generations are embracing OpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot. ChatGPTfor schoolwork, according to to a new survey by the Pew Research Center. But it is not clear that they are fully aware of the pitfalls of the technology.
In a follow-up to the 2023 survey of youth ChatGPT use, Pew asked ~1,400 US teens aged 13-17 whether they used ChatGPT for homework or other school-related tasks. Twenty-six percent said they had doubled the number two years ago.
Just over half of the teens who responded to the survey – 54% – think it’s okay to use ChatGPT to explore new topics. Twenty-nine percent said the AI tool was acceptable for math problems, and 18 percent said it was acceptable to use ChatGPT for writing essays.
Given the ways in which ChatGPT can fail, the results may be cause for alarm.
ChatGPT not so good at math – and that’s not it is the most reliable source from the facts. Recently to learn It was found while researching whether leading artificial intelligence could pass a doctoral-level history test GPT-4oThe standard AI model powering ChatGPT can answer questions slightly more accurately than a human guessing at random.
The same study found that ChatGPT was weakest in areas such as social mobility and the geopolitics of sub-Saharan Africa, potentially matching the demographic of teenagers who reported using it most in school. Black and Hispanic teens are more likely than white teens to say they use ChatGPT for school-related work, according to a Pew survey.
Research is surprisingly mixed on the pedagogical impact of ChatGPT. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found Turkish high school students with access to ChatGPT performed worse on a math test than students without access. In a separate place to learnresearchers observed that German students who used ChatGPT found research materials more easily, but tended to synthesize these materials less skillfully than their peers who did not use ChatGPT.
In a separate place request According to Pew last year, a quarter of public K-12 teachers said using AI tools like ChatGPT in education does more harm than good. A request A study by the Rand Corporation and the Center for Reinventing Public Education, meanwhile, found that only 18% of K-12 teachers use artificial intelligence in their classrooms.
