Does not Medians <- apply(numeric_data, 1, median) give us the rom medians?
On Mon, 19 Dec 2022 at 05:52, Milan Glacier <n...@milanglacier.com> wrote: > On 12/18/22 19:01, Boris Steipe wrote: > >Technically not a help question. But crucial to be aware of, especially > for those of us in academia, or otherwise teaching R. I am not aware of a > suitable alternate forum. If this does not interest you, please simply > ignore - I already know that this may be somewhat OT. > > > >Thanks. > >------------------------------------------------------ > > > >You very likely have heard of ChatGPT, the conversation interface on top > of the GPT-3 large language model and that it can generate code. I thought > it doesn't do R - I was wrong. Here is a little experiment: > >Note that the strategy is quite different (e.g using %in%, not > duplicated() ), the interpretation of "last variable" is technically > correct but not what I had in mind (ChatGPT got that right though). > > > > > >Changing my prompts slightly resulted it going for a dplyr solution > instead, complete with %>% idioms etc ... again, syntactically correct but > not giving me the fully correct results. > > > >------------------------------------------------------ > > > >Bottom line: The AI's ability to translate natural language instructions > into code is astounding. Errors the AI makes are subtle and probably not > easy to fix if you don't already know what you are doing. But the way that > this can be "confidently incorrect" and plausible makes it nearly > impossible to detect unless you actually run the code (you may have noticed > that when you read the code). > > > >Will our students use it? Absolutely. > > > >Will they successfully cheat with it? That depends on the assignment. We > probably need to _encourage_ them to use it rather than sanction - but > require them to attribute the AI, document prompts, and identify their own, > additional contributions. > > > >Will it help them learn? When you are aware of the issues, it may be > quite useful. It may be especially useful to teach them to specify their > code carefully and completely, and to ask questions in the right way. Test > cases are crucial. > > > >How will it affect what we do as instructors? I don't know. Really. > > > >And the future? I am not pleased to extrapolate to a job market in which > they compete with knowledge workers who work 24/7 without benefits, > vacation pay, or even a salary. They'll need to rethink the value of their > investment in an academic education. We'll need to rethink what we do to > provide value above and beyond what AI's can do. (Nb. all of the arguments > I hear about why humans will always be better etc. are easily debunked, but > that's even more OT :-) > > > >-------------------------------------------------------- > > > >If you have thoughts to share how your institution is thinking about > academic integrity in this situation, or creative ideas how to integrate > this into teaching, I'd love to hear from you. > > *NEVER* let the AI misleading the students! ChatGPT gives you seemingly > sound but actually *wrong* code! > > ChatGPT never understands the formal abstraction behind the code, it > just understands the shallow text pattern (and the syntax rules) in the > code. And it often gives you the code that seemingly correct but indeed > wrongly output. If it is used with code completion, then it is okay > (just like github copilot), since the coder need to modify the code > after getting the completion. But if you want to use ChatGPT for > students to query information / writing code, it is error proning! > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- John Kane Kingston ON Canada [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
