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OpenAI admits the majority of their 250 million global weekly users are students. (Which means cheating & NOT learning.)
Haven't been able to find video of the forum yet. I have the info via tweets from Marc Watkins, https://x.com/Marc__Watkins .
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Marc Watkins (marcwatkins.bsky.social)
@Marc__Watkins
The shocking (but also totally not shocking) point raised at last night’s OpenAI Education Forum were the majority of their global 250 million weekly users are students. Their CFO noted a 90% up tick in ChatGPT usage in the Philippines once the school year began.
@Marc__Watkins
The shocking (but also totally not shocking) point raised at last night’s OpenAI Education Forum were the majority of their global 250 million weekly users are students. Their CFO noted a 90% up tick in ChatGPT usage in the Philippines once the school year began.
Link to tweet
Dave Nelson
@thedavenelson
Did they share any information about the types of use? Any ability to analyze queries or frequency? There is a gold mine of research there.
@thedavenelson
Did they share any information about the types of use? Any ability to analyze queries or frequency? There is a gold mine of research there.
Marc Watkins (marcwatkins.bsky.social)
@Marc__Watkins
Mollick’s point was the type of usage we’re seeing isn’t as a tutor but as an automated task machine and that isn’t helpful to student learning. A user has to know how to work the interface to produce a tutoring session otherwise the AI simply offloads learning by answering.
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Marc Watkins (marcwatkins.bsky.social)
@Marc__Watkins
OpenAI’s Education Forum was interesting. I hope they invite more critical voices into the discussion for the next forum. One take away was @emollick discussing how students relying on generative AI often asked fewer questions in the classroom. He noted that’s not a good thing.
@Marc__Watkins
OpenAI’s Education Forum was interesting. I hope they invite more critical voices into the discussion for the next forum. One take away was @emollick discussing how students relying on generative AI often asked fewer questions in the classroom. He noted that’s not a good thing.