Just to support your argument further, here is a related snippet from another comment[0] by knzhou:
> Students can all recite Newton's third law, but immediately afterward claim that when a truck hits a car, the truck exerts a bigger force. They know the law for the gravitational force, but can't explain what kept astronauts from falling off the moon, since "there's no gravity in space". Another common claim is that a table exerts no force on something sitting on it -- instead of "exerting a force" it's just "getting in the way".
Here is some food for thought for educators. If GPT-2 also makes sense of the world by regurgitating what it sees, perhaps this is simply the nature of learning by example, and we should accommodate for this. Perhaps it isn't so effective to give students mounds of problem sets offering clear premises and easy-to-grade answers. Unless you want your students to be GPT-2s.
I wonder if gpt2 or similar projects can be used to make systems to train teachers.
Teacher explains something and raise questions or statement and have GPT2 complete them. That way, they can learn more about students, common questions, misunderstandings, etc.
If someone knows more about what companies or tech is used for training teachers, do let me know. I am pretty interested in any vacuum in the industry and if schools pay enough for training their teachers.
> Students can all recite Newton's third law, but immediately afterward claim that when a truck hits a car, the truck exerts a bigger force. They know the law for the gravitational force, but can't explain what kept astronauts from falling off the moon, since "there's no gravity in space". Another common claim is that a table exerts no force on something sitting on it -- instead of "exerting a force" it's just "getting in the way".
Here is some food for thought for educators. If GPT-2 also makes sense of the world by regurgitating what it sees, perhaps this is simply the nature of learning by example, and we should accommodate for this. Perhaps it isn't so effective to give students mounds of problem sets offering clear premises and easy-to-grade answers. Unless you want your students to be GPT-2s.
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21729619