In the present study, we provided students an unfiltered access to a state-of-the-art large language model (LLM) chatbot. The chatbot was intentionally designed to mimic proprietary commercial chatbots such as ChatGPT where the chatbot has not been tailored for the educational context; the underlying engine was OpenAI GPT-4. The chatbot was integrated into online learning materials of three courses. One of the courses focused on software engineering with LLMs, while the two other courses were not directly related to LLMs. Our results suggest that only a minority of students engage with the chatbot in the courses that do not relate to LLMs. At the same time, unsurprisingly, nearly all students in the LLM-focused course leveraged the chatbot. In all courses, the majority of the LLM usage came from a few superusers, whereas the majority of the students did not heavily use the chatbot even though it was readily available and effectively provided a free access to the OpenAI GPT-4 model. We also observe that in addition to students using the chatbot for course-specific purposes, many use the chatbot for their own purposes. These results suggest that the worst fears of educators -- all students overrelying on LLMs -- did not materialize even when the chatbot access was unfiltered. We finally discuss potential reasons for the low usage, suggesting the need for more tailored and scaffolded LLM experiences targeted for specific types of student use cases.
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Center for Humans and Machines(人类与机器中心);Max-Planck Institute for Human Development(人类发展马克斯·普朗克研究所);Center for Adaptive Rationality(适应性理性中心);TUD Dresden University of Technology(德累斯顿技术大学);Department of Business Analytics and Decision Science(商业分析与决策科学系);Vienna University of Economics and Business(维也纳经济与商业大学)