Reid Hoffman: belief

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…What will replace homework in our schools? Oral exams, projects where you work with GPT, homework done in class? I think you’ll have all of those, but I think you’ll still have homework. We’re going to have a whole bunch of tools that help teachers, help grade, a bunch of other stuff. But even if you took ChatGPT today, say I was wanting to teach a class on Jane Austen and her influence on English painting. What I could do as a teacher — go to ChatGPT, other AI bots, construct 10 essays with my own prompts, hand them out to the students and say, “These are D pluses. Go use the tools and make it better” as a way of doing it. That’s the way that you could still have homework. They’re using ChatGPT, and it causes them to be much better at thinking about what makes a great essay, as opposed to just the mechanics of all the writing. What could I innovate on the structure? Could I have a bold or new contrarian point and argue it in an interesting way? That kind of provocation is a way that we get, again, human applications. I actually don’t think homework is going away, although I do think all of the things you mentioned will also be growing, too. Ten years from now, will people be worse writers? And which other ways might we be stupider?…

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