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Scenаriо: Ethаn, а gifted 7th grader, cоnsistently finishes his assignments in half the time allоtted and often becomes disruptive out of boredom. His teacher decides to give him additional worksheets of the same type of problems to “keep him busy.” Which evaluation best fits this decision? (4)
We hаve spent аll semester discussing technоlоgy аnd its impact оn our world, with a specific focus on AI since it is already such a part of everyday life that most people don't even consider its deeper implications. We also discussed tools that can help you with writing and tools that perhaps shouldn't help you with writing.With all of this in mind, then, in the time that remains, please read the following paragraph, excerpted from a longer article. Then write a paragraph in which you offer your own thoughts on technology.ConsiderWhat you learned about technology this semesterWhether our class has altered your views of technology at all (in either direction)Whether you think AI has a place in the writing processWhat you think overall about the direction society is going when it comes to AI/technologyAny other technology-related comment you'd like to makeMake sure your paragraph uses at least one (1) correctly cited quote from this excerpt:Since the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, millions of people have started using large language models to access knowledge. And it’s easy to understand their appeal: Ask a question, get a polished synthesis and move on – it feels like effortless learning.However, a new paper I co-authored offers experimental evidence that this ease may come at a cost: When people rely on large language models to summarize information on a topic for them, they tend to develop shallower knowledge about it compared to learning through a standard Google search.Co-author Jin Ho Yun and I, both professors of marketing, reported this finding in a paper based on seven studies with more than 10,000 participants. Most of the studies used the same basic paradigm: Participants were asked to learn about a topic – such as how to grow a vegetable garden – and were randomly assigned to do so by using either an LLM like ChatGPT or the “old-fashioned way,” by navigating links using a standard Google search.No restrictions were put on how they used the tools; they could search on Google as long as they wanted and could continue to prompt ChatGPT if they felt they wanted more information. Once they completed their research, they were then asked to write advice to a friend on the topic based on what they learned.The data revealed a consistent pattern: People who learned about a topic through an LLM versus web search felt that they learned less, invested less effort in subsequently writing their advice, and ultimately wrote advice that was shorter, less factual and more generic. In turn, when this advice was presented to an independent sample of readers, who were unaware of which tool had been used to learn about the topic, they found the advice to be less informative, less helpful, and they were less likely to adopt it.We found these differences to be robust across a variety of contexts. For example, one possible reason LLM users wrote briefer and more generic advice is simply that the LLM results exposed users to less eclectic information than the Google results. To control for this possibility, we conducted an experiment where participants were exposed to an identical set of facts in the results of their Google and ChatGPT searches. Likewise, in another experiment we held constant the search platform – Google – and varied whether participants learned from standard Google results or Google’s AI Overview feature.The findings confirmed that, even when holding the facts and platform constant, learning from synthesized LLM responses led to shallower knowledge compared to gathering, interpreting and synthesizing information for oneself via standard web links.--Shiri Melumad (Associate Professor of Marketing, University of Pennsylvania), page 1I look forward to reading your thoughts!