2024-02-15 13:22:00
Marie is a student in population and development sciences at the University of UCLouvain. She tells us how ChatGPT artificial intelligence helps her with her studies. “I use it to help me be more productive, I waste less time on tasks that can be done by an AI,” she explains, adding that she uses it at least once a week .
She uses it both during her internship, to do scientific literature research, and as part of her classes to quickly synthesize information based on a long text. “Not everyone necessarily has great writing skills in academic language. I know I can do it, but it would take double the time. With ChatGPT, I write a text as if I were explaining it orally and I ask them to write it in a more academic way,” she describes.
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But she also warns about the long-controversial reliability of the instrument: “It is important to reread and be critical, because sometimes it uses inappropriate sentence formulas or terms. But it’s a tool that saves a lot of time and productivity.” Marie explains that its use is particularly risky in terms of knowledge production, because what it transmits is not always accurate. Note that the AI is only up to date on its information until January 2022. It specifies that ChatGPT does not help it in its learning as such.
Marie gives a concrete example. She was working on a theme on which she had collected numerous sources, and she asked the AI to produce a chronological and synthetic table based on her sources. “In a few seconds it gave me a table summarizing several pages of articles. It was a huge time saver.”
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