What are pros and cons of doing this? What impact it will have on the personality / mind of the person down the line after say 10 yrs?
It's just AI chatbot, I don't see how it would be dangerous.
And I am also pretty sure a 16 year old knows to expect inaccurate results from it, unless they've been living restricted from the outside world until now.
The only negative thing I see from it so far is kids using it to create essays, but it's not like there wasn't a countless number of them available on the internet before. It was just easier to detect as you could search up the text and see if you can find it online.
Anyway, for just playing around it gets boring after 15 minutes.
Why don't you try?At 16 they should be just as capable of understanding the limitations as anyone. Just be sure to explain that it has no interest in truth, but only writing convincingly.
I doubt it will have personality impacts. The one thing that could be an issue is if they use it as a replacement for real human friends.
Have you asked ChatGPT? Jk lol
Honestly, whatever they use ChatGPT for is probably fine. If you feel like they're going to cheat on their homework or something, you can just ask them to do a small sample in front of you. Plus, it's not like ChatGPT is going away, no matter how much the NYT and Disney complain. Best bet is for them to get familiar with the technology now.
Also, there's literally no way to the long-term effects of AI. I strongly suspect that if people use it as a crutch, it will create intellectually and creatively stunted people. But it's not like we don't have that now...
I don't think there will be any change in personality or cognition just by using ChatGPT. The only concern I can think of is over reliance. Especially if your child intends to goto post secondary school. Universities are very strict regarding plagiarism and view AI generation as such. If they can use it responsibly there no downside, if they're going to use it to start to do their homework for them it'll be a problem.
Like any other automated tool, I'd want them to master the manual skills first.
With math and calculators first we show we can do it longhand then get the calc. Show you can search and assess sources first then incorporate AI.
ChatGPT is overly safe in terms of personality and the worldview it presents when asked. it's a great tool to learn, more so than a teacher because you can freely ask it very specific questions in your own words and it will give an understandable answer. I think it's actually a perfect tool for someone that age. Once the topics get too advanced, the results become less reliable though.
It doesnt make things up anymore as much as it used to. It still does sometimes with topics that are less commonly discussed in the dataset it's trained on (this is similar with websearch). It will however confidently claim that it's answer is correct sometimes. As long as you understand that it's not always correct and have the sense to verify things that seem off, you'll be fine.
You'll get the best results from the paid GPT4 subscription (20 dollars a month), which i would recommend.
The only real risk i see is overreliance on it. I notice this in myself too, it's almost like i forgot googling things is an option, so when i'm stuck rather than trying another approaxh, i just keep throwing prompts at GPT-4 until i give up and find the solution elsewhere, often within minutes. The way things are going, classic web search is becoming obsolete (unreliable result because of AI written content and fake news) while AI actively tries to be unbiased.
tldr: Yes, it's extremely useful, make sure they don't forget how to do things without chatgpt too.
