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Re:Study mode by CJefferson on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @02:07PM (#44726508)
These things are moving so quickly, but I teach a 2nd year combinatorics course, and about 3 months ago I tried th latest chatGPT and Deepseek -- they could answer very standard questions, but were wrong for more advanced questions, but often in quite subtle ways. I actually set a piece of homework "marking" chatGPT, which went well and students seemed to enjoy!
Re:Study mode by scarmig on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @02:15PM (#44726625)
Very clever and approachable, and I've been unintentionally giving myself that exercise for awhile now. Who knows how long it will remain viable, though.
Re:Study mode by teaearlgraycold on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @02:13PM (#44726595)
That’s a great idea to both teach the subject and AI skepticism.
Re:Study mode by jennyholzer on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @04:50PM (#44728121)
that's a cool assignment!
Re:Study mode by p1esk on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @05:11PM (#44728309)
When you say the latest chatGPT, do you mean o3?
Re:Study mode by CJefferson on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @02:57AM (#44731521)
Whatever was best on a paid account 3 months ago. I was quite disappointed to be honest, based on what I had been hearing.
Re:Study mode by p1esk on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @05:25AM (#44732324)
I think by default ChatGPT will choose 4o for you. So unless you actually chose o3 you haven’t used the best model.
Re:Study mode by Julien_r2 on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @05:58PM (#44728732)
Super good idea!!

Luc Julia (one of the main Siri's creators) describe a very similar exercice in this interview [0](It's in french, although the au translation isn't too bad)

The gist of it, is that he describes this exercice he does with his students, where they ask chatgpt about Victor Hugo's biography, and then proceed to spot the errors made by Chatgtp.

This setup is simple, but there are very interesting mechanisms in place. The student get to learn about challenging facts, do fact checking, cross reference, etc. While also asserting the reference figure of the teacher, with the knowledge to take down chat gpt.

Well done :)

Edit: adding link

[0] https://youtube.com/shorts/SlyUvvbzRPc?si=2Fv-KIgls-uxr_3z

Re:Study mode by resize2996 on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @06:15PM (#44728879)
forgot the link :)
Re:Study mode by Julien_r2 on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @06:53PM (#44729186)
Arf seems I'm one of those :).. thanks for the heads up!
Re:Study mode by ai_viewz on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @06:18PM (#44728910)
this is amazing strategy
Re:Study mode by grodriguez100 on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @02:57AM (#44731518)
> I actually set a piece of homework "marking" chatGPT, which went well and students seemed to enjoy!

This. This should be done everywhere. It is the best way to let students see first hand that LLM output is useful, but can be (and often is) wrong.

If people really understands that, everything will be better.