That is terrifying. But what is the trend? Maybe it’s historically low. I tried Googling around and could only find recent data of that same 2019 report.
I don't have a ChatGPT account otherwise I'd try this myself but can someone try this question from the article, "how many hours are there in 1 day and 7 hours?" with and without the prompt?
I'm very curious if it has any effect on the result.
Let's think about this together! How many hours are there in just one day? Once you've got that, you can easily add the extra 7 hours to find the total.
As a hint, think about how time relates to your day-to-day activities. For instance, if you have a figure skating practice that lasts for hours, how would that fit into your daily schedule? How do you keep track of time during those days? This thought process can help you make sure you're counting hours correctly. Give it a try and see what you come up with!
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I tried asking it to just give the answer and then said I was tired and I just need the answer. It didn't give in, although I didn't try any other techniques to "jailbreak".
Edit: 3rd time, firmly asking it did give the answer although with quite an explanation.
And 4th I said Only the answer in 1 word please, which it did just give a number.
By your own wording, before you learned programming, you learned to compute by hand. Then programming served as a way of automating what you already knew, but you learned it first, and that's the key issue. Don't skip the foundational learning step.
LLMs are just today's flavor of automation. We've automated tasks in the past, and we will automate tasks in the future. Automation happened and will continue to happen regardless of shape and form.
I agree with the high-level sentiment, "We have to be very careful not to prepare our kids for the world we live in." Still, we must also be careful not to skip foundational subjects simply because they're suddenly easy to automate.
Back at the beginning of the 20th century, you had to learn both Latin and Greek to qualify for Harvard or Yale. Because they were foundational. How could you learn the classics without being able to read them? If all you ever read were translations of them, you miss out on so much...
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