From helping hand to stumbling block: the ChatGPT paradox in competency experiment

Duk Gyoo Kim, Ahram Moon

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Abstract

We ran a controlled laboratory experiment to examine whether ChatGPT’s aid can increase the participants’ performance in three different–reading and writing, mathematical problem-solving, and computational thinking–tasks. We find that the maths score significantly decreases with ChatGPT’s assistance. This result is mainly because the low-ability subjects couldn’t discern the hallucinated answers with the correct ones, and it contests the general idea that ChatGPT can complement the workers with less expertise.

Original languageEnglish
JournalApplied Economics Letters
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Publication statusAccepted/In press - 2024

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All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Economics and Econometrics

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