More teens report using ChatGPT for schoolwork, despite the tech’s faults

Young Geniuses Are Embracing OpenAI’s AI-Powered Chatbots chatgptfor school work, According to In a new survey by the Pew Research Center. But it is not clear that they are fully aware of the harms of technology.

In a follow-up to its 2023 survey on ChatGPT use among youth, Pew asked 1,400 US-based teens ages 13 to 17 whether they used ChatGPT for homework or other school-related assignments. 26 percent said their numbers were double two years ago.

More than half of teens who responded to the poll — 54% — said they thought it was acceptable to use ChatGPT to research new topics. 29 percent said AI tools are acceptable for math problems, and 18% said using ChatGPT for essay writing is acceptable.

Given how low ChatGPT can be, the results are likely alarming.

chatgpt Not that great at math – and it doesn’t Most reliable source The information is a recent one Study Investigating whether top AIs can pass doctoral-level history tests GPT-4oThe default AI model that powers ChatGPT can answer questions only slightly more accurately than a person can guess at random.

The same study found that ChatGPT is weakest in areas such as social mobility and geopolitics in sub-Saharan Africa, potentially relevant to the adolescent population that uses it most in schools. Black and Hispanic teens are more likely than white teens to use ChatGPT for school-related tasks, according to a Pew poll.

Research on the educational effects of ChatGPT is surprisingly mixed. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found Turkish high school students who had access to ChatGPT performed worse than students who did not have access on a math test. in a separate StudyThe researchers found that German students using ChatGPT were able to find research materials more easily but tended to synthesize these materials less efficiently than their non-ChatGPT-using peers.

in a separate the poll Last year by Pew, a quarter of public K-12 teachers said using AI tools like ChatGPT in education does more harm than good. A Survey The Rand Corporation and the Center on Reinventing Public Education, meanwhile, found that only 18% of K-12 educators use AI in their classrooms.