Younger Gen Zers are embracing OpenAI's AI-powered chatbot. ChatGPTfor schoolwork according to But it's not clear they fully appreciate the technology's shortcomings, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center.
In a follow-up to its 2023 survey on ChatGPT usage among youth; Pew asked 1,400 teens between the ages of 13 and 17 whether they had used ChatGPT for homework or other school-related tasks. Twenty-six percent said they had doubled the number two years ago.
Just over half of teens who responded to the survey — 54% — said they thought it was acceptable to use ChatGPT to research new subjects. Twenty-nine percent said the AI tool was acceptable for math problems, and 18% said writing an essay using ChatGPT was acceptable.
Given that ChatGPT takes shorter methods into account, the results are potentially alarming.
ChatGPT Not very good at math. – it's not. The most trusted source Reality. Recently Study. The investigation found that the lead AI could pass a doctoral-level history test. GPT-4oThe original AI model using the ChatGPT system is able to answer questions slightly more accurately than a random human guess.
The same study found that ChatGPT is weak in areas such as social mobility and the geopolitics of sub-Saharan Africa, which may be related to the demographic of teenagers who report using it most in school. According to a Pew survey, black and Hispanic teens are more likely than white teens to say they've used ChatGPT for school-related work.
Research on the pedagogical impact of ChatGPT is surprisingly mixed. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found. Turkish high school students with access to ChatGPT performed worse than students without access on a math test. in separate Study.The researchers observed that German students who used ChatGPT found research materials more easily, but synthesized those materials less proficiently than their non-ChatGPT peers.
in separate Survey Pew said last year that using AI tools like ChatGPT in education does more harm than good. One Survey The Rand Corporation and the Center on Reinventing Public Education also found that 18% of K-12 educators use AI in their classrooms.
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