ChatGPT Study Mode guides students step-by-step to the correct answer

OpenAI has launched a new version of its AI platform. The company claims thatClaude’s Learning Modeis designed to help students better understand complex topics. ChatGPT will adopt a Socratic conversational approach, similar to Claude’s Learning Modewhich Anthropic launched in April. ChatGPT will not answer questions directly, but instead guide users to their own solutions by asking questions that allow it to calibrate responses to the user’s objective and understanding. The conversation will then unfold according to a “scaffold” format, which means ChatGPT is going to slowly release information to avoid overwhelming the user. OpenAI claims to have developed Study Mode with the help of teachers, scientists, and pedagogy specialists. The tool does not run on a new model but rather a set of custom system instructions. OpenAI said

“We chose this approach because it lets us quickly learn from real student feedback and improve the experience — even if it results in some inconsistent behavior and mistakes across conversations,” . “We plan on training this behavior directly into our main models once we’ve learned what works best through iteration and student feedback.”

OpenAI will not be making Study Mode only available to ChatGPT users. The company will first roll out the feature to all logged-in Free, Plus, Team and Pro users. Edu subscribers can access the “next few weeks.”

It’ll be interesting to see how many students actually use Study Mode. A toggle makes it easy to turn the feature on or off. AI cheating at US colleges is a serious problem, as a recent article inNew York Magazine ()vividly illustrated. OpenAI, for its part plans to make Study Mode more useful and engaging for students. The company is looking at ways to personalize the tool and offer goals and progress tracking in conversations.