Re:ChatGPT banned from New York City public schools’ devices...
by crazygringo on Friday January 06, 2023 @10:45AM
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> but the examination probably isn't testing anything useful if it can be cheated with tools like ChatGPT. For example any maths test which only tests students on problems which are easily solvable by a calculator isn't testing any skill of real world use.
Learning multiplication tables in school is important. Yes a calculator can tell you what 6 x 8 is, but any competent adult ought to be able to figure that out on their own as well, or 20 x 5,000. Numerical literacy is important.
Similarly, basic writing skills are incredibly important. Just because they can be faked with ChatGPT in response to a standardized prompt doesn't mean they're not useful. We train with standardized prompts in school so that in the real world we can write in new situations.
And in my experience, I wish most developers learned more SQL is school. SQL is mainly about avoiding a lot of pitfalls, especially with regards to your specific table and index structure and sharding strategy, and ChatGPT is utterly useless with regards to that.
Learning multiplication tables in school is important. Yes a calculator can tell you what 6 x 8 is, but any competent adult ought to be able to figure that out on their own as well, or 20 x 5,000. Numerical literacy is important.
Similarly, basic writing skills are incredibly important. Just because they can be faked with ChatGPT in response to a standardized prompt doesn't mean they're not useful. We train with standardized prompts in school so that in the real world we can write in new situations.
And in my experience, I wish most developers learned more SQL is school. SQL is mainly about avoiding a lot of pitfalls, especially with regards to your specific table and index structure and sharding strategy, and ChatGPT is utterly useless with regards to that.