Using ChatGPT in Education: Human Reflection on ChatGPT’s Self-Reflection

Eugène Loos (), Johanna Gröpler and Marie-Louise Sophie Goudeau
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Eugène Loos: School of Governance, Utrecht University, 3511 ZC Utrecht, The Netherlands
Johanna Gröpler: TH Wildau College, University of Applied Sciences Wildau, 15745 Wildau, Germany
Marie-Louise Sophie Goudeau: Utrecht University Library, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands

Societies, 2023, vol. 13, issue 8, 1-18

Abstract: ChatGPT is a fascinating AI text generator tool. It is a language model developed by OpenAI, a research and deployment company with the mission, according to OpenAI’s website: “to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity”. ChatGPT is able to generate human-like texts. But how does it work? What about the quality of the texts it provides? And is it capable of being self-reflective? Information sources must be efficient, effective and reliable in education, in order to enhance students’ learning process. For this reason, we started a dialogue with ChatGPT-3 while using, among others, a SWOT analysis it generated about its own functioning in an educational setting. This enabled us, as human authors, to analyze the extent to which this AI system is able to practice self-reflection. Finally, the paper sketches implications for education and future research.

Keywords: ChatGPT; AI; text generating; education; SWOT analysis; self-reflection; hallucinations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 A14 P P0 P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 Z1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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