Reading articles from professors who want to find who is using ChatGPT and education departments who ban ChatGPT from the environments they have authority would make one think using AI is a cheat and is bad for learning. I don't think so.
If I can use AI to do the work that you are giving me then it means your work is fuuuuuuuucking boring and drudgery. The work you are giving is not thoughtful for students and it is so bad that AI can give generate reasonably acceptable work or even drafts for students to work from to get to the goal that has been set to them. That kind of advantage should be praised.
Most students are going to be working. If a boss wants a worker to come up with several ways and ideas to do something. Why the hell should AI (ChatGPT) not be used to achieve that goal in a FRACTION of the time spent in the past? If a worker can jam out code in fractions of the time a long time engineer can do it, why the hell would such a productivity boost not be embraced?
Is it cheating because they used AI to cleverly give them a boost or is it cheating because not every student gets to take advantage of it? I question the notion that ChatGPT is cheating at all. The assignment of negative connotations to ChatGPT I think is going to hold back many students because they will think it is cheating when ALL of them should be learning how to use it NOW.
I hold the opinion that ChatGPT is one of the biggest productivity boosts in the information sector ever and those who do not take advantage of it in any setting are going to be the new poors in the digital divide. We cannot be so foolish to say ChatGPT is cheating in any sense.
Teachers, professors and all other educators must learn to embrace ChatGPT and modify how they are going to teach students to be educated, productive citizens in the world. That has always been the goal of education. The drudgery associated with school work is not indicative of capability to do work. I think we have seen proof of that with the 45th President of the U.S.A. along with many others like Bill Gates and Andrew Carnegie. Schoolwork is a hazing and if ChatGPT is the teacher/advisor/assistant then there is no reason for students to not be able to get a good education while having this amazing tool at their hands.
School needs to be the resource to expand students' awareness of the world around them and expand their mindset so that their minds do no narrow like they do today because of the drudgery.
ChatGPT, like the internet, is a massive resource of information at your fingertips. The nation who educates their citizens to use AI productively, I believe, will be the top nation in the world and their productivity measure will be off the charts.
That's not to say their isn't any dangers associated with ChatGPT. If schools expand student's minds properly then students won't be so stupid and naive to take everything AI does as is. Like I said, with the negativity tagged onto AI from education, I think students are being programmed to hold themselves back, which is backwards of the goal of education. It's just foolish.
Treat ChatGPT like a calculator. Calculators can be wrong if something in it goes wrong or if you input a query and you misunderstand how the query is evaluated therefore a wrong query/question.
Yes, I am absolutely a ChatGPT/AI bull.