Using ChatGPT in Education: Human Reflection on ChatGPT’s Self-Reflection

Eugène Loos; Johanna Gröpler; Marie Louise Sophie Goudeau

doi:10.3390/soc13080196

Using ChatGPT in Education: Human Reflection on ChatGPT’s Self-Reflection

Eugène Loos^*, Johanna Gröpler, Marie Louise Sophie Goudeau

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Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau

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ChatGPT is a fascinating AI text generator tool. It is a language model developed by OpenAI, a research and deployment company with the mission, according to OpenAI’s website: “to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity”. ChatGPT is able to generate human-like texts. But how does it work? What about the quality of the texts it provides? And is it capable of being self-reflective? Information sources must be efficient, effective and reliable in education, in order to enhance students’ learning process. For this reason, we started a dialogue with ChatGPT-3 while using, among others, a SWOT analysis it generated about its own functioning in an educational setting. This enabled us, as human authors, to analyze the extent to which this AI system is able to practice self-reflection. Finally, the paper sketches implications for education and future research.

Original language	English
Article number	196
Pages (from-to)	1-18
Number of pages	18
Journal	Societies
Volume	13
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/soc13080196
Publication status	Published - Aug 2023

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Keywords

AI
ChatGPT
education
hallucinations
self-reflection
SWOT analysis
text generating

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