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If this is the best we get from transformer-based AI models, then maybe all the teachers who have simply ignored the hype and hyperventilating were the smart ones. The real losers are Chegg and the low-paid contract workers in Kenya and India who were writing papers for rich students. And, I suppose, investors who bought at the top.

Educators are left with the same problem we had before ChatGPT and Khanmigo in that most students are not particularly interested in doing the cultural work teachers assign them. Personalized tutors were never going to be the answer to that problem.

The impetus to change how we approach the teaching of writing and reading remains. Thanks to ChatGPT we couldn't expect the elephant to stay quiet while we went about teaching as usual while arranging our desks around its bulk. Maybe now, we can?

In any case, my big question remains. Is there anything in this cultural technology that has educational value?

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