B1 – Intermediate
Chatbots are computer programs used to simulate chat with a human user. The latest chatbot to become more popular is ChatGPT. When a user asks something on ChatGPT, it can answer almost every question you ask it and with perfect grammar. It’s like you are really talking to another person.
Google didn’t waste time and launched its own version called Google Bard.
It has now become a race for the best AI chatbot in town between Google and Microsoft.
Read the article on the AI chatbot battle between ChatGPT and Google Bard.
https://breakingnewsenglish.com/2302/230213-chatgpt-chatbot-4.html
Vocabulary Questions:
- What does ”hot on the heels of sb/sth” mean, ”Hot on the heels of ChatGPT came Google’s Bard.”? Use this expression in your own sentence.
- What does the expression “to spread like wildfire” mean, “A new online revolution has begun and is spreading like wildfire.” Use this idiom in your own sentence.
- What does “shake up” mean, “There are many questions about how chatbots will shake up our world.” Use this phrase in your own sentence.
Discussion Questions:
- What is your opinion on AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Google Bard? Would you use such programs?
- What are the uses and dangers of such AI chatbots?
- How is this going to change our lives/societies?
- Share your opinion on this: “Teachers are worrying about “the end of homework”.
- Do you agree or disagree that “AI can deepen our understanding of information and turn it into useful knowledge making it easier for people to get things done.”? Explain.
11 replies on “AI Chatbots ChatGPT and Google Bard”
Hello, in my opinion Chat GPT maybe be interesting for people who are searching specific topics like Quemistry, Art, Science. But students and children should’nt use it. They should use another ways of learning.
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Discussion Questions:
What is your opinion on AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Google Bard? Would you use such programs?
R: I used ChatGPT some times to do simple test like to write a history about crazy things like unicors, space and apples. Things that don’t have common things or to ask questions about phisic, science,…
I think it’s a little scary the way in that ChatGPT responds the questions like it was a human and the potential danger that may have in hands of dangerous people.
What are the uses and dangers of such AI chatbots?
How is this going to change our lives/societies?
It may change the way we do some jobs today, destroy some jobs and create others.
Share your opinion on this: “Teachers are worrying about “the end of homework”.
R: I think that homework such as we know it is finished, because all students are able to take an essay through ChatGPT, for example. Consequetly, the way that I see this, is that we have to change the homeworks to make them more relevants to estudiants. For example, asking them in class about a theme that they must have prepare before. These way although the homework has been prepared using AI, the estudients must have a depth knowledge about that topic, to be able to respond appropriately in class.
Do you agree or disagree that “AI can deepen our understanding of information and turn it into useful knowledge making it easier for people to get things done.”? Explain.
R: I think that some times AI can be useful to summarize the large amount of information we have on a topic so that we can have a more global idea but also that it will still be necessary for us to delve deeper into this topic to truly understand it.
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Vocabulary Questions:
What does ”hot on the heels of sb/sth” mean, ”Hot on the heels of ChatGPT came Google’s Bard.”? Use this expression in your own sentence.
R: Maria is hot on the heels of Julia in the car race.
What does the expression “to spread like wildfire” mean, “A new online revolution has begun and is spreading like wildfire.” Use this idiom in your own sentence.
R: The rumor spread up like wildfire.
What does “shake up” mean, “There are many questions about how chatbots will shake up our world.” Use this phrase in your own sentence.
R: The last news about virus can shake up our world.
1. What is your opinion on AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Google Bard? Would you use such programs?
I believe IA is a great advance of technology and the human knowledge itself. I really don´t know how Google Bard is, however I actually use ChatGPT to search some information and to help to my eldest daughter with her homework. Those are a great tools to information efficiently which are spreading like wildfire.
2. What are the uses and dangers of such AI chatbots?
AI and chatbots were created by reasonable people to reasonable people, so if you ask something than you really don´t know maybe you get an incorrect answer because you got it a bad question. For that you need to have some knowledge about this technology and the subject itself to get some text you can use to shake up your knowledge. In other words, this is a bad tool for a kids who just know read and write and is a wonderful tool for a professional or advanced student to help them on subject like history, literature, chemistry, physic, math, art, music, languages, tech even soft skills.
3. How is this going to change our lives/societies?
The humanity always is trying to automatize its basic process with the goal of get more time, time is the only thing humanity doesn´t control (for now), to try to optimize it life. In the pass the knowledge was saved in stone, next in paper, next in books, next in libraries to share it, next internet and with it search engine, which replace to search information on libraries.. now AI chatbots are hot on the hells of search engine to replace them, because search engine show you a lot of information but chatbots set you the specific information you want. In other words chatbots are optimizing searching.
4. Share your opinion on this “Teachers are worrying about the end of homework”.
Is the end of classic homework or better the classic education system. Teachers and education system will must improve and change the way they share information and grow up student. Is a great opportunity to students really focus to learn and no not wasting time in searching basic information, like Who is the father of any country or what is the exactly date of any history event. The students can focus to learn how to create new stuff in any area of society.
5. Do you agree or disagree that “AI can deepen our understanding of information and turn it into useful making it easier for people to get things done”?
I´m not complete agree. As I mention before, this tool is for people who has some knowledge about the topic than is searching. If you ask for as ambiguous way it´s so possible chatbot answer you as the wrong way. Chatbot cand deepen your understanding also, can increase your ignorance if you just have a little of knowledge of topic you asking.
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Vocabulary Questions:
1. What does ”hot on the heels of sb/sth” mean, ”Hot on the heels of ChatGPT came Google’s Bard.”? Use this expression in your own sentence.
It means fast, without loosing time. Hot on the heels of my new skirt, my sister bought a new one.
2. What does the expression “to spread like wildfire” mean, “A new online revolution has begun and is spreading like wildfire.” Use this idiom in your own sentence.
It is growing and appearing fast and without control. Youtubers are spreading like wildfire.
3.What does “shake up” mean, “There are many questions about how chatbots will shake up our world.” Use this phrase in your own sentence.
It means to rapidly affect and change. You should shake up the company to deal with resistance to change.
Discussion Questions:
1. What is your opinion on AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Google Bard?
Would you use such programs?
I do not know much about such programs. What I know is what I heard regarding how useful and effective is ChatGPT and how it can help us in finding information, but reading the text I acknowledged that its use is beyond that. I would use it once I learnt its advantages.
2. What are the uses and dangers of such AI chatbots?
I can imagine that they can help us in gathering information and writing reports. But I am sure that they can do more than that and I cannot imagine their limits. The dangers are the way we use them, without sense and control.
3.How is this going to change our lives/societies?
Several working sectors will disappear as such technology will improve some of the cognitive tasks we humans are performing right now. People will have to acquire new skills and learn new ways of working not only using new technology but also designing it.
4. Share your opinion on this: “Teachers are worrying about “the end of homework”.
I will be very difficult for teachers to ascertain if a homework was really done by their students or by the AI as they will not be near the students to know it. The activities will be done in class or change completely the way students learn and practice some subjects.
5. Do you agree or disagree that “AI can deepen our understanding of information and turn it into useful knowledge making it easier for people to get things done.”? Explain.
I agree that AI will be a facilitator in human lives but I am not so sure about the correct use we will be applying to such an AI. Let’s think about mobile phones. Its first use was to have a call, but nowadays calling is the less activity we do with our mobile phones. Thus, I am not sure if we will be using the AI as it is designed for.
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1. “Hot on the heels of”
When yor are climbing and another cyclist is hot on your heels , you find energy where you don’t have it.
2. “To spread like wildfire”
With social networks, fake news spreads like wildfire.
3. “Shake up”
New bank failure shakes up the wordwide economy.
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