[ExI] ai at science olympiad, was: RE: AI expert says Singularity only months away - not years

[Tara Maya]

Spike, are you willing to give tips on how to use ChatGPT to train? My 16 year old son is in AcaDec and training for a competition right now and his younger brother starts high school next year. I would love some idea how they could up their game. They are both highly motivated to learn and computer savvy.

I am working right now on how to use ChatGPT to write fiction. But so far, I haven't been impressed with its ability to pass on factual information. I tried to enlist its help to imagine a society set on a Superearth, but it didn't give consistent, factual information. What am I doing wrong?

How can kids use ChatGPT to study?

Tara Maya

> On Mar 12, 2023, at 10:06 AM, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> 
> Our Science Olympiad team went all in with ChatGPT as a trainer.  The other
> good teams all have a regular Science Olympiad class during the school day
> with a full time SciOly teacher and many multiple-year volunteer trainers
> and coaches, but we don't.  No budget for that.  Our team is all
> after-school, weekend, no regular trainers, volunteer staff only, all on
> their own time.  So we are always consigned to a kind of green paper
> ceiling, a perpetual about 6th thru 8th in the district.
> 
> But this year, ChatGPT came along, four guys showed it is a marvelous
> trainer by the two teams winning 2nd and 3rd in an area about which they
> knew nada point nothing a week before.  The rest of the team took it up,
> trained with it for about 5 weeks, and yesterday, oooooh what a day we had,
> my goodness, they were SCORCHED EARTH good yesterday, oh MERCY we put on a
> whoop-ass tournament.  We scored high enough in that event to qualify for
> state level competition in April, ahead of perennial good teams such as Palo
> Alto High.  We... beat... Palo...freaking... Alto, such a good team they are
> and have always been.
> 
> What did we do different this year?  Used ChatGPT as our trainer.  Perhaps
> Paly is far too dignified for that sorta thing, hard to say, but they get a
> chance to redeem themselves in a few weeks at state.  Cool!

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