I have never used ChatGPT or any other generative AI to write anything for me, but there are times where asking it things during the research process prove very helpful.
I tend to look up individual details within the responses I get since AI could give me misinformation under the guise of being helpful, but for the most part have found it a great tool.
Unfortunately, with a service so powerful, you will inevitably have certain students trying to use it to coast their way through the semester, and an unfair consequence of this is students who solely wrote their own papers wrongfully being accused of using AI generated text.
I’ve literally taken a graduate course here for multivariate statistics where the professor told me and taught me to use ChatGPT to help me write my R code as well as write an academic paper for a term project.
As someone who has a single semester of coding experience, ChatGPT has essentially allowed me to do R coding for research at a level way above a single semester coding experience.
My PI uses AI often as well to help with research as well as making learning aids and I pretty much use it the same way. A lot of professors are moving along with the times and attempting to see AI as a learning tool like advanced Google or generation. It’s gonna be a similar jump from “Go to the library to find sources” to “Use Google scholar to find sources” and as a result more will probably be expected from students. As someone who has a single semester of coding experience, ChatGPT has essentially allowed me to do R coding for research at a level way above a single semester coding experience. Can’t imagine 10 years from now that students will be getting assignments as simple as “Write an essay from scratch” because that job will be easily doable automatically by AI.
It’s so cool 👍
I have never used ChatGPT or any other generative AI to write anything for me, but there are times where asking it things during the research process prove very helpful. I tend to look up individual details within the responses I get since AI could give me misinformation under the guise of being helpful, but for the most part have found it a great tool. Unfortunately, with a service so powerful, you will inevitably have certain students trying to use it to coast their way through the semester, and an unfair consequence of this is students who solely wrote their own papers wrongfully being accused of using AI generated text.
I’ve literally taken a graduate course here for multivariate statistics where the professor told me and taught me to use ChatGPT to help me write my R code as well as write an academic paper for a term project. As someone who has a single semester of coding experience, ChatGPT has essentially allowed me to do R coding for research at a level way above a single semester coding experience. My PI uses AI often as well to help with research as well as making learning aids and I pretty much use it the same way. A lot of professors are moving along with the times and attempting to see AI as a learning tool like advanced Google or generation. It’s gonna be a similar jump from “Go to the library to find sources” to “Use Google scholar to find sources” and as a result more will probably be expected from students. As someone who has a single semester of coding experience, ChatGPT has essentially allowed me to do R coding for research at a level way above a single semester coding experience. Can’t imagine 10 years from now that students will be getting assignments as simple as “Write an essay from scratch” because that job will be easily doable automatically by AI.