Adam Muse
1/1/23
Will GPT or Other AI Replace Traditional Education?
Would it be possible to get a full education with chatGPT? Considering the access to electronic courses, you can get degrees or certifications available on the internet makes it seem possible. With ChatGPT all that information is available and more accessible, it just has a few limitations like, the accuracy of the information in the given situation, the organization of educational subjects, and the ability to get certifications or a degree. There are a few advantages of going to college like being able to go to unique locations and meet unique individuals, get a degree, hands on interactivity, and most importantly depth of learning. So if a full education requires these things then chatGPT is quite a ways away from being able to deliver a full education. But the reason you get an education is so you can get the knowledge you need to perform a job, and degrees are becoming less and less needed for many jobs.
Perhaps a more appropriate question may be can I receive the necessary knowledge to do a given job from ChatGPT? This seems more likely than my first question because ChatGPT is like an AI professor that is ready to decipher your questions on any given subject. ChatGPT understands human questions much better than Google's search engine and without the ads, and you get more direct answers, without having to scan through a page to find your answer.
I decided to test this theory out with something ChatGPT hopefully already knows really well.
Here is how my conversation went:
What are some popular fields of Ai?
What type of jobs are available for a deep learning developer?
What are some requirements to become a machine learning engineer?
What are some of the things you would need to learn to become a machine learning engineer for deep learning?
Can you explain neural networks a little more?
Using cat pictures, can you show me how i would train this neural network to generate cat pictures?
Show me how i can build a neural network?
How can i run the code from the example you gave me?
Do you think you someone could get a full education with ChatGPT?
Could ChatGPT teach someone the skills necessary to get a job?
In conclusion
Even though ChatGPT disagrees, I still think it is possible gpt will be providing education in the near future. Currently ChatGPT shouldn't be used as such because the information still has inaccuracies especially when it tries write code, for example it will give you deprecated/outdated code, it seems to do ok with base code on popular programming languages but has a hard time finding and implementing the right libraries, models and adding the proper syntax. ChatGPT needs a way to test the code it's giving you so it can read the errors and fix them accordingly. Overall ChatGPT has shown to be a great accessory for education, if you are formulating the right questions with ChatGPT and in general, expand your mind and education will come easy. I do predict in a few years we will see certification programs for multiple tech fields provided by professor GPT.