(Go stick your head in a pig!)
Come to think of it, “share and enjoy” is exactly the way I would expect an AI-generated YouTube video to end.
(Go stick your head in a pig!)
Come to think of it, “share and enjoy” is exactly the way I would expect an AI-generated YouTube video to end.
You’re paying tens of thousands of dollars to learn how to think critically and do hard shit with your brain. Instead of actually putting in the work, you’re letting an AI do the hard parts. Which defeats the purpose of going/paying in the first place.
I’m sure I would have done the same back then too. But it is short sighted.
I asked my math teacher when I would ever use [whatever we were learning at the time] and his answer stuck with me.
“It’s not about learning how to [thing], it’s about learning to solve a problem in a new way”
I regret not taking it to heart in school but I try to remind myself of that when I “waste” a night working on something “useless” - you learn a lot more than the solution while solving a problem
It hadn’t struck me until now that some think that all you’re trying to learn in school is the solutions to arbitrary problems, but people thinking that makes a lot of sense and helps clarify why they have the posture they do towards education.
Some aspects of education overemphasize memorization so maybe a lot of people think that applies to all of education when it does not.
Yup. Unlike a calculator which just makes doing the things you already understand the steps of doing easier, AI just gives answers whether they are right or not.
I remember a teacher telling me the same thing about calculators way back when. “If you’re not able to do the calculation yourself you won’t know if the calculator’s answer is right or not”
The difference being that if you put in the right equation the calculator will give you the correct result.
AI might give you the right result.
Almost everyone who goes to college is paying tens of thousands of dollars to get a piece of paper so they can get a better paying job.
And considering how many people leave college completely inept I’d say they’re not doing the hard work of learning.
AI is ultimately just a tool, and whether it’s beneficial or detrimental depends on how you use it.
I’ve seen some of my classmates use it to just generate an answer which they copy and paste into their work, and yeah, it does suck.
I use it to summarize texts that I know I won’t have time to read until the next class, create revision questions based on my notes, to check my grammar or rephrase things I wrote, and sometimes I use Perplexity to quickly search for some information without having to rely on Google, or having to click through several pages.
Truly it isn’t much different from what we used to do around 2000-2015, which was to just Google things and mainly use Wikipedia as a source. You can just copy and paste the first results you find, or whatever information is on Wikipedia without absorbing it, or you can use them to truly research and understand something. Lazy students have always been around and will continue to be around.