ChatGPT and other generative models raise a problem for the use of papers and dissertations as a way to assess students’ abilities. Is this just a manifestation of a more general problem, that is, the tendency of our education systems to raise “stochastic parrots”? I suggest an affirmative answer, but with the qualifications that human understanding may occur through different cognitive strategies and that stochastic parrots exhibit, after all, one of those strategies – although a shallow one.

ChatGPT studente ideale. L’IA come specchio del sistema dell’istruzione

Marco Mazzone
2023-01-01

Abstract

ChatGPT and other generative models raise a problem for the use of papers and dissertations as a way to assess students’ abilities. Is this just a manifestation of a more general problem, that is, the tendency of our education systems to raise “stochastic parrots”? I suggest an affirmative answer, but with the qualifications that human understanding may occur through different cognitive strategies and that stochastic parrots exhibit, after all, one of those strategies – although a shallow one.
2023
stochastic parrots, foundation models, education system, dual models
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