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Why do I need to go to school if I have ChatGPT?

My nephew actually asked me this question last night and I couldn’t think of a concise and suitable response on the spot. “Lets go into the other room and have a seminar about it” probably wouldn’t have been the right response. It did make me wonder how many other kids are now explicitly asking this to adults in their lives.

So a few initial thoughts:

  • The more you learn, the more able you are to use ChatGPT. You have to know stuff to be able to use it well.
  • You won’t always have access to ChatGPT. You might not always be able to trust ChatGPT. If you don’t learn to do stuff yourself, you’ll be stuck without ChatGPT.
  • ChatGPT often makes mistakes. Unless you know stuff without it, you’re not going to be able to know when ChatGPT is wrong.
  • There are things you learn to do at school (talking, writing, making) which ChatGPT is never going to be able to do for you.
  • Even when ChatGPT could do it for you, you learn through the doing and it’s often fun to do stuff.
  • There are things you learn at school which aren’t just about learning. You’re practicing being with other kids, you’re learning music, you’re playing sports.

I literally study LLMs in education (albeit universities) and I couldn’t answer this. What hope do most adults have? What happens if millions of kids ask this question, get no adequate answer, then talk to each other about it?

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