I love how ChatGPT’s new Study Mode makes me actually use my brain

It is not surprising that students around the world use Chatgpt and other artificial intelligence chatbots to cheat. On homework, tests and everything you want to mention. After all, why develop something yourself when there is a pending cat-cat and ready to do the work hard for you?

This is obviously a problem to repair, and Openai’s response is a study mode which is now cooked in the Chatppt. The idea is to prevent students from simply asking Chatgpt to tell them the answer to a question and to ensure that the ChatPPT teaches them to answer the question by themselves.

Will it work? Maybe. Maybe. Probably not. Anyway, I gave a turn to the Chatgpt study mode for ourselves to discover what it is capable of – and I loved it completely.

How to activate the Chatgpt study mode

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First of all. In order to use the study mode, you will need to be connected to Chatgpt. Then, under the invitation to “ask for anything”, click Tools> Study and learn. This will put the Chatppt in study mode, forcing the chatbot to answer in a very different way from that usually.

Chatgpt offers three default prompts in study mode: “Help me with my homework”, “Explain to me a subject” and “Create a practical quiz”. You can either select one or provide Chatgpt another prompt to manage. I first asked him to explain a subject to me, forcing him to ask for more details on what I was studying and in what note I am.

I answered honestly that I was a mature adult learning only for learning. In this way, Chatgpt knew exactly who and what he was facing. He then offered fascinating subjects that we could explore together, old empires to quantum physics. I chose the latter because it is a fascinating subject. I then obtained a basic explanation of quantum physics before Chatgpt stops to give me a question. Namely, how can I imagine an electron in an atom? The goal was to force me to actively think about the subject and what I think I know rather than simply passively absorb all the information that Chatgpt offered.

Why I like Chatgpt study mode

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This is, in a word, why I like the Chatgpt study mode. This forces Chatgpt to teach you and forces you to learn. I find the interactions concerning a specific subject much more useful in study mode than in the regular mode of the Chatbot. It is the old adage to teach a man to fish in large. Of course, as a calculator would do, Chatgpt could simply tell me what 32 is multiplied by 53, but that only helps me once. However, explain the simplest way to several 32 by 53, and that helps me with life.

Beyond this reason for essential, I like the way in which the mode of study of Chatgpt seeks to continue the conversation at all costs. Although the regular chatgpt mode is also good to encourage follow -up, the study mode increases things from a notch – which led me to have a long conversation on the principle of uncertainty of Heisenberg, for example. Chatgpt taught me something, I learned something, and it was an effort of collaboration.

I also like the way in which the study mode of chatgpt modifies the essence of what is and the fact of generator. Until now, AI has been considered a rapid solution for problems. From Manage banal tasks for youhas Carry out daily tasks with unique prompts in a lineThe generative AI has taken the lead. While, once Chatgpt has been transferred to study mode, this forces you to do the work yourself. The transforming of a lecturer to a teacher, from a servant to an assistant.

Chatgpt study mode: room for improvement

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Is the Chatgpt study mode perfect? No. But this is only the first iteration, Openai is committed to improving it. An obvious way to do so would be to have an option to lock the Chatppt in study mode. This would prevent students (or just curious adults like me) from going so far before abandoning and asking for the answer. However, whatever the way the study mode evolves, it has already given me a new way of interacting with Chatgpt.

If you are trying to study Chatgpt by yourself, I recommend that you push beyond the default options and experiment with prompts. The options range from questions as simple as “what are the three states of matter?” The much deeper questions likely to force a longer back and forth discussion, such as “What is the meaning of life?”

I asked the latter in regular mode and chatgpt study mode, and the answers were very different. In regular mode, Chatgpt simply offered some possible answers depending on different interpretations of the question. However, in study mode, Chatgpt asked me what I myself thought about the meaning of life.

Which is 42, of course. Thank you for all the fish, the Chatgpt study mode.