Douglas MacKevettNovember 2022: GPT’s great for writing Christmas cards.
June 2023: GPT’s great for writing exam essays.
January 2024: GPT’s great for coding and data analysis.
September 2024: GPT’s great for reasoning through crossword puzzles.
January 2025: GPT’s great for solving world-class Chemistry and Physics problems.
In Ethan Mollick’s latest newsletter, he shows how OpenAI’s latest model can solve problems that require “reasoning through”, not just predicting the next best token. This is a huge leap in capabilities and a taste of Things to Come.
Mollick leaves us with the following admonishment: “…the AI does so much thinking and heavy lifting, churning out complete results, that my role as a human partner feels diminished. It just does its thing and hands me an answer.” This is the reality of working with GAI now, in September 2024. At institutes of higher education, this requires a paradigm shift in how we help students think through problems – whether we want this shift or not. Offering input, assigning a task and hoping for the best is now easily solved by machines.