Department of Forensic Psychiatry, University of Bern, Switzerland.
King's College London, UK.
Int J Soc Psychiatry. 2023 Dec;69(8):1882-1889. doi: 10.1177/00207640231178451. Epub 2023 Jun 30.
Artificial Intelligence is ever-expanding and large-language models are increasingly shaping teaching and learning experiences. ChatGPT is a prominent recent example of this technology and has generated much debate around the benefits and disadvantages of chatbots in educational domains.
This study seeks to demonstrate the possible use-cases of ChatGPT in supporting educational methods specific to social psychiatry.
Through interactions with ChatGPT 3.5, we asked this technology to list six ways in which it could aid social psychiatry teaching. Subsequently, we requested that ChatGPT perform one of the tasks it identified in its responses.
ChatGPT highlighted several roles it could fulfil in educational settings, including as an information provider, a tool for debates and discussions, a facilitator of self-directed learning and a content-creator for course materials. For the latter scenario, based on another prompt, ChatGPT generated a hypothetical case vignette for a topic relevant to social psychiatry.
Based on our experiences, ChatGPT can be an effective teaching tool, offering opportunities for active and case-based learning for students and instructors in social psychiatry. However, in their current form, chatbots have several limitations that must be considered, including misinformation and inherent biases, although these may only be temporary in nature as these technologies continue to advance. Accordingly, we argue that large-language models can support social psychiatry education with appropriate caution and encourage educators to become attuned to their potential through further detailed research in this area.
人工智能不断发展，大型语言模型越来越多地影响教学体验。ChatGPT 是这项技术的一个突出代表，它在教育领域引发了关于聊天机器人的优缺点的广泛讨论。
本研究旨在展示 ChatGPT 在支持社交精神病学特定教学方法方面的可能应用。
通过与 ChatGPT3.5 的互动，我们要求该技术列出它可以帮助社交精神病学教学的六种方法。随后，我们要求 ChatGPT 执行其在回应中确定的一项任务。
ChatGPT 强调了它在教育环境中可以扮演的几个角色，包括作为信息提供者、辩论和讨论工具、自主学习的促进者以及课程材料的内容创建者。在后一种情况下，根据另一个提示，ChatGPT 针对一个与社交精神病学相关的主题生成了一个假设的案例描述。
根据我们的经验，ChatGPT 可以成为一种有效的教学工具，为社交精神病学的学生和教师提供主动学习和基于案例的学习机会。然而，在它们目前的形式下，聊天机器人有几个必须考虑的局限性，包括错误信息和固有偏见，尽管随着这些技术的不断进步，这些可能只是暂时的。因此，我们认为大型语言模型可以在适当的谨慎下支持社交精神病学教育，并鼓励教育工作者通过在该领域的进一步详细研究来关注它们的潜力。
