“Kids Today Are Still Curious!”
If anyone can compare how the knowledge of Bulgarian language and literature is developing, both in high school graduates and in AI, it is today’s guest. For the second year running, Mr. Svetoslav Stoychev took part in the Digital Stories experiment that tested how the newest AI models handle the national school-leaving exam, and this time he helped bring in two real graduates. Now we talk about the results, about students’ love of books, and about what keeps a young teacher burning for the profession in the age of artificial intelligence.
02How Would ChatGPT Do on Bulgaria's School-Leaving Exam?
The world may talk endlessly about the Turing test, but Bulgaria has its own equivalent that is just as telling: the matura, the school-leaving exam in Bulgarian language and literature. I gave ChatGPT this year's exam with no extra instructions, sat it myself as a rival, and handed both papers to a real examiner, who graded them and tried to guess which one was written by the algorithm and which by an overage school-leaver. Which of us embarrassed himself more? Grab the popcorn.
03How Did AI Score on Bulgaria's School-Leaving Exam?
What happens if three of the most powerful AI models sit the matura, Bulgaria's school-leaving exam in Bulgarian language and literature, and two experienced examiners grade them? To make the contest fiercer and more revealing, two real graduates and the author of these lines join in. Will ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini earn perfect scores or fail spectacularly, can the teachers tell machine from human, and what do the results say about Bulgarian education and about the big questions new technologies bring?
