AIに物語の「教訓」をたずねてみた。

YouTube動画のタイトルみたいですが、実際にやってみました。
素材はイソップ物語のThe Goose That Laid the Golden Eggsです。
単なるお遊びではなく、小5帰国生英語クラスで教訓をone sentenceで考えさせる宿題を出していました。

*あるプロンプトを入力し、以下の茶色の文章をAIに読ませ、生成させた内容が青色の文章です。
(読みやすいように体裁を整えています。)

Once a farmer went to the nest of his goose and found there an egg, all yellow and shiny. When he picked it up, it was heavy as a rock. He was about to throw it away because he thought that someone was playing a trick on him. But on second thought, he took it home, and there he discovered to his delight that it was an egg of pure gold!
He sold the egg for a handsome sum of money. Every morning the goose laid another golden egg, and the farmer soon became rich by selling eggs.
As he grew rich, he grew greedy. “Why should I have to wait to get only one egg a day?” he thought. “I will cut open the goose and take all the eggs out of her at once.”
And so he killed the goose and cut her open, only to find—nothing.

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The five lessons (moral instructions) from the story are:

Greediness leads to destruction: The farmer’s greed for more money made him lose the source of his income, which ultimately led to his downfall.

Patience is a virtue: The farmer’s impatience made him take a rash decision of killing the goose to get all the eggs at once. This resulted in him losing everything he had.

Gratitude: The farmer failed to acknowledge the gift he had received from the goose, and instead, he became greedy and wanted more. This shows how important it is to be grateful for what we have.

Think before acting: The farmer was about to throw the egg away, but he took a second thought and decided to take it home farmer was about to throw the egg away, but he took a second thought and decided to take it home. However, later he failed to think before killing the goose, which led to his downfall.

Don’t kill the golden goose: The golden goose represents a source of income or wealth that we have. The story warns us not to kill the source of our wealth out of greed or impatience, as it will lead to losing everything.

4つ目の教訓Think before actingの説明のなかの、最初の1文の観点が面白いです。
農夫はその卵を投げ捨てようとしましたが、考え直し、家に持ち帰ることにした」という点を評価しているのです。
この後に農夫はトンデモナイ行為をしてしまうわけですが、それ以前の投げ捨ててしまわなかった点は良い判断と認めているのです。
AIなかなかやるな~と感じさせます。

さらには3つ目の教訓説明から以下のような内容を抽出することができます。
It is important to be grateful for what we have.
「今持っているものに感謝することが大切です。」
何と重要なことでしょうか!
皮肉にも人間はAIから大切な「人」生訓を教えてもらうことがあるのかもしれません……。

みなさん、あざみ野校ELCで「異次元の」英語授業の一端に触れてみませんか?

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