Are Graphical User Interfaces the answer to AI?

Music City Center 

Now that Large Language Models (LMMs) like ChatGPT are so adept at code, there is a tension between our desire to teach reproducible research methods and our desire to have students produce their own authentic work. One possible solution is to transition computing tasks to Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs). While a GUI like Excel or Tableau makes it harder to track reproducible work, it is also harder for students to rely fully on an LMM. A LMM can produce a list of instructions, but students need to follow those instructions appropriately for their own data. I have reintroduced GUIs into my data science classes alongside the code-based solutions I have long taught, and will discuss the strengths and drawbacks of this approach.

Graphical user interfaces