Hi, a student of mine was aware of this chatbot and asked it about a class-assignment of his own accord. We program in Java with some extra homemade library class used by some schools in our region. The bot came up with a "solution" which was flawed in several respects: 1. It used some other (unimported) classes - solution doesn't work and doesn't fit the assignment. 2. It put all the code into the constructor, a typical (design and style) error for students beginning with Java. When confronted with the problem number one above, it acknowledged the fault and produced a different unrelated solution. Sooo.... I was impressed how well the chatbot simulated a typical clueless human who even thinks he is smart, while his code is basically bullshit. (Probably a result of googling forums, where other learners posted their solutions to assignments with the given school library classes.) The bot clearly passed the Turing test ;-) But... I don't think the interaction was helpful for somebody who is learning to program. It is probably less helpful than conversing with other also not very knowledgeable students as they are at least reasoning humans. Talking to the bot might be fun to do in the last lesson before christmas or so. Entertaining until you realise the software is "simulating" intelligent conversation - not really talking with insight. And that could turn out to be a waste of time. Happy new year Christian Am 03.01.2023 um 04:06 schrieb Jurgis Pralgauskis:
Hi, happy NY!
ChatGPT can create, fix and explain code https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/#samples <https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/#samples>
Anyone tried to incorporate it into teaching process? Or have ideas/doubts how it ciuld help?
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