

I’ve seen this at work as well. The initial internal bot we had would give pretty decent info, would have sources, would say “I don’t have access to that” etc. Now it always gives plausible sounding answers. It uses sources that do not back up its conclusions. Then if I tell it the source does not say that, it will say it doesn’t know why it said that, that the answer “felt” correct. It was useful as a search engine but now not even that


If you’re wanting to teach programming concepts, I would start with scratch instead. This can be taught to little kids or older students. It’s what the free comp science class from Harvard starts with