New Modes of Learning Enabled by AI Chatbots: Three Methods and Assignments

By Ethan Mollick, Lilach Mollick. 2022

: The ChatGPT chatbot and its 3.5 version of GPT AI are able to produce high-quality, sophisticated text in natural language. The authors of this paper believe that AI can be used to overcome three barriers to learning in the classroom: improving transfer, breaking the illusion of explanatory depth, and training students to critically evaluate explanations. The paper provides background information and techniques on how AI can be used to overcome these barriers and includes prompts and assignments that teachers can incorporate into their teaching. The goal is to help teachers use the capabilities and drawbacks of AI to improve learning.

Subfields: Large Language Models, Human-Computer Interaction

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Citations in the corpus

GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models (2023, background): “There is also a growing set of studies examining speciﬁc economic impacts and opportunities for LLMs (Bommasani et al., 2021; Felten et al., 2023; Korinek, 2023; Mollick and Mollick, 2022; Noy and Zhang, 2023; Peng et al., 2023).”
What if the devil is my guardian angel: ChatGPT as a case study of using chatbots in education (2023, background): “Several preprints of studies and numerous blog posts and media outlets have reported the advantages of ChatGPT in education (Zhai, 2022); some have even provided guidelines on using it in classrooms (Lieberman, 2023; Mollick & Mollick, 2022; Ofgang, 2022).”
GPT is an effective tool for multilingual psychological text analysis (2024, background): “GPT has been lauded for its ability to exhibit human - level performance on a variety of tasks (e.g., passing the Bar Exam or acing the SAT test), and better performance than existing LLMs (47, 48).”