Since the release of ChatGPT in 2022, instructors have worried about how students might circumvent learning by utilizing the chat bot to complete homework and other assignments. Over the years, the large language model has enabled AI to expand its database and its ability to answer more complex questions, but can it replace a student’s efforts entirely?
Graduate students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s college of engineering integrated a large language model into an undergraduate aerospace engineering course to evaluate its performance compared to the average student’s work.
The researchers, Gokul Puthumanaillam and Melkior Ornik, found that ChatGPT earned a passing grade in the course without much prompt engineering, but the chat bot didn’t demonstrate understanding or comprehension of high-level concepts. Their work illustrating its capabilities and limitations was published on the open-access platform arXiv, operated by Cornell Tech.
Pickett Simplex Trigs, like I had, seem to be going for $15-$20, plus shipping. Of course, they were not “collectible” when I got rid of mine. I would have needed to lug the things around for another 40 years, to get that price. $20 today is about $6.25 in 1983.
When I was in high school, the teacher required accuracy + or - 3, on the third digit. So, yes, I can see using a hive mind to produce greater accuracy.
While I was an Apple reseller a cousin gave me a Japanese abacus as a birthday present. Lovely craftsmanship! One of the first things I did was to study how it processed input to render the result. What I found fascinating is that it used a bi-quinary encoding, the same as the IBM 650 used! I baptized it Apple 0.