Know It All: ChatGPT In The Classroom
1A
NPR
4.3 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
The program is powered by a language model that is programmed to produce human dialogue. Users can feed it a prompt, and ChatGPT will predict how it should respond.
This makes teachers nervous. Educators are concerned the application will fundamentally change how writing is taught and will impact students' abilities to craft ideas on their own.
Meanwhile, other teachers are getting creative with the technology.
We assemble a panel of guests to discuss the impact of artificial intelligence on our schools. It's part of our series Know It All: 1A and WIRED's Guide to AI.
Want to support 1A? Give to your local public radio station and subscribe to this podcast. Have questions? Find us on Twitter @1A.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | [♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:07.8 | Chat GPT has become one of the most popular sites online, |
| 0:12.2 | more than 100 million monthly users within just two months of its launch last November. |
| 0:18.5 | It took Instagram two and a half years to reach that number. |
| 0:21.9 | Users can type in a prompt and quickly get whatever they asked for, |
| 0:25.5 | written by artificial intelligence. |
| 0:27.6 | And it didn't take long for students to give it a try. |
| 0:30.6 | I teach freshman English at a local university, |
| 0:33.8 | and three of my students turned in chatbot written papers this past week. |
| 0:39.1 | I spent my entire weekend trying to confirm that they were chatbot written, |
| 0:44.5 | then trying to figure out how I'm going to confront them, |
| 0:47.6 | how I'm going to turn them in as plagiarists, which is what they are, |
| 0:52.1 | and how I'm going to penalize their grade. |
| 0:54.6 | This is not pleasant and it's not a good temptation. |
| 0:58.2 | These young men's academic careers now hang in the balance |
| 1:02.0 | because they've been caught cheating. |
| 1:04.2 | Thanks for that message, Kate. |
| 1:05.5 | We continue our series, Know It All, 1A and Wired's Guide to AI. |
| 1:10.5 | For this series, we've partnered with the digitally-focused news outlet. |
| 1:13.8 | And for this episode, we'll talk about artificial intelligence in the classroom. |
| 1:18.6 | Later on, we'll hear from a student at Princeton University |
| 1:21.2 | whose peers enthusiastically embraced chat GPT, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from NPR, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of NPR and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.