What do you think about ChatGPT?

[TopHatWombat]

A smart student will use Chat GPT as a tool and a lazy student will depend on it.

Exactly. I've been using ChatGPT as a research tool. In particular to help me find citations for papers. There was a very obvious leap forward in this capability when GPT-4 was released two months ago. It's also a really good grammar and spellchecker. I honestly don't see how companies like Grammarly will survive now that ChatGPT exists for free.

I also use it in some volunteer work that I do for a non-profit, to tighten up the word count on print materials, emails, and blog posts. It's really good at reformulating paragraphs. I just use the prompt, "Rewrite the following paragraph to be under 150 words," for example, and it provides excellent output. I usually have to tweak a few words, as sometimes a concept gets lost or mangled when certain words drop, but it lets me do a task in two minutes that used to take me 15-20 minutes.

Honestly, I see it rapidly becoming just as important of a tool for knowledge workers as other software is. Just like accountants have to be Excel wizards, despite all the great specialized software that exists in the accounting industry, I see these text-based AI tools becoming just as important. You can already find books on Amazon about how to write better AI prompts, and I assure you that the likes of Coursera and universities will very soon have courses on the same, if they don't already.