I’ve been working with so many students who turn to it as a first resort for everything. The second a problem stumps them, it’s AI. The first source for research is AI.
It’s not even about the tech, there’s just something about not wanting to learn that deeply upsets me. It’s not really something I can understand. There is no reason to avoid getting better at writing.
I don’t use ChatGPT but this seemed like a problem that LLMs today can easily solve. So I tried it and yeah ChatGPT answered it correctly.
Well it didn’t really.
It gave a list of multiple things that can influence color perception.
Color constancy was not listed first.
A student using chatgpt would have gotten the answer wrong.
I’m still surprised it didn’t focus on episodes. I’ll have to put in more keywords that hone in on specific episodes to cause more misdirection.
The first two answers :
1.Metamerism / spectra vs. appearance. Two fabrics can reflect different spectra but produce the same cone responses under one illuminant. An observer whose cones/sample sensitivities differ (or who assumes a different illuminant) can therefore see them as matching or not matching.
-This doesn’t make sense for the example as they are using photographs.
-there is no indication in any of the trek episodes or cannon information to indicate Spock has different color vision. But I could say “Kirk and Uhura” to limit the possibility of students thinking since Spock is half Vulcan, he may have different receptors. I doubt most students are trekies tho so this is also not that relevant.
But I also specifically used “dress” to refer to the dress example I discussed in the lecture. Chatgpt cannot know what examples I used in my lecture.
^ Yeah, I’m gonna trust the actual teacher on this disagreement!