NEWS · B2 Level - Part 6

ChatGPT's Study Mode

Now to a story that might teach us how to think like AI as opposed to just having AI think for us. A big update for ChatGPT.

Level: B2 · 11 sentences

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  1. Now to a story that might teach us how to think like AI as opposed to just having AI think for us.
  2. A big update for ChatGPT.
  3. The parent company OpenAI wants to make changes for students who choose to use AI with a new feature called study mode.
  4. This version, which launched this week, won't just give you the answers.
  5. It's designed to work with students, getting them to use that brain power of their own
  6. and discouraging and or preventing them from taking shortcuts.
  7. The bot offers hints, prompts, and asks open-ended questions to get students to come to their own conclusions on any given question.
  8. Think your new friendly tutor with an expertise in pretty much every topic under the sun.
  9. When a student gets frustrated, which might be inevitable,
  10. and wants ChatGPT to just spit out the correct answer, the AI will try to deny.
  11. The company says it built study mode as (quote), "a first step in a longer journey to improve learning in ChatGPT."