“Consistent with prior work, our results show that access to GPT-4 significantly improves performance (48% improvement for GPT Base and 127% for GPT Tutor). However, we additionally find that when access is subsequently taken away, students actually perform worse than those who never had access (17% reduction for GPT Base).”
Kids who use ChatGPT do actually “significantly” better according to the authors. Now I don’t know if significantly means statistically significant here because I haven’t read the methodology but 127% increase in performance must be something. That said, that’s a clickbaity title if I’ve ever seen one.
Edit: Upon closer reading, the increase in performance is statistically significant. Also “access to GPT“ in this case is having GPT open while solving the problems, not studying with GPT and then solving the problems, which was my first understanding from the clickbaity title. Results are not terribly surprising in that regard.
“Consistent with prior work, our results show that access to GPT-4 significantly improves performance (48% improvement for GPT Base and 127% for GPT Tutor). However, we additionally find that when access is subsequently taken away, students actually perform worse than those who never had access (17% reduction for GPT Base).”
Kids who use ChatGPT do actually “significantly” better according to the authors. Now I don’t know if significantly means statistically significant here because I haven’t read the methodology but 127% increase in performance must be something. That said, that’s a clickbaity title if I’ve ever seen one.
Edit: Upon closer reading, the increase in performance is statistically significant. Also “access to GPT“ in this case is having GPT open while solving the problems, not studying with GPT and then solving the problems, which was my first understanding from the clickbaity title. Results are not terribly surprising in that regard.