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ChatGPT’s Study Mode Is Here. It Won’t Fix Education’s AI Problems
OpenAI’s new study mode for ChatGPT throws questions back at students, but the learning feature doesn’t address generative AI’s underlying disruption of education.
The mode is designed around the Socratic method, so when activated, OpenAI’s generative AI chatbot rejects direct requests for answers, instead guiding the user with open-ended questions. “When ChatGPT is prompted to teach or tutor, it can significantly improve academic performance,” says Leah Belsky, a vice president of education at OpenAI, “but when it's just used as an answer machine, it can hinder learning.” Even if the initial research that OpenAI participates in about education and AI supports the company’s claims that students learn better with a bot by their side, when it's used as a tutor rather than an answer generator, I’m still concerned.
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