In university, one sees students attending lectures and labs, working together on assignments, and doing exams. But—standing still for a moment—what is the purpose of all this business? The answer involves education, in the sense that students are being educated. But what is an education, precisely? In this blog post, I will summarize my views on the matter. Some say that an education is more than professional training.

In this post, I'll publish the answers given by OpenAI's ChatGPT for the final exam of the course Concepts of Programming Languages, a course I gave in the fall semester of 2022.