ChatGPT scores ‘B to B-’ on MBA exam, but professor who set bot the test isn’t worried about AIs taking over
- US professor Christian Terwiesch tested AI program ChatGPT with questions from a final MBA course exam he had written, and it passed with a ‘B to B minus’
- However, ChatGPT made some errors in simple maths, showing that AIs aren’t quite ready to take over the world from humans
Wharton professor Christian Terwiesch was sitting with his grown children around the dinner table when the subject of artificial intelligence came up. Both of his kids had been experimenting with the nascent technology in their respective fields: “one of them is interested in design … and the other one is interested in computer science”.
Eventually his son prompted ChatGPT to explain a sorting algorithm “using terms from Homer Simpson”.
“It was funny,” Terwiesch said, “it was, from a computer science perspective, correct, and it was so easy as a user interface”.
ChatGPT users can input any prompt and the tool will respond nearly instantly with an answer, written so clearly it would be easy to believe a human had written it. ChatGPT can write essays, legal briefs, and even full songs that mimic an artist’s writing style.
Terwiesch wanted to test it himself. He fed ChatGPT questions from the final exam for his operations management class – a subject he literally wrote the book on – to gauge whether the tool could pass an MBA-level course.