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It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System (gizmodo.com)
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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Computers with some encyclopedia, but no GPTs are fine, no?

If a kid can write and train a mini-GPT trainable on that encyclopedia, then maybe they deserve the mark for desperation and ingenuity and being a fucking new Leonardo.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    GPTs are fine, if you learn to disrespect their output and fix it before presenting it as your own.

    Actually, taught that way, GPT may be a tool for teaching critical thinking - if the professors aren't too lazy to mark down the garbage output.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    A lot of people "have trouble getting started" - in all kinds of endeavors. Once you get them rolling, they can see the pattern and do it for themselves next time. If the AI glop gets lucky and copied decent argument from beginning to end (something I've seen it fail spectacularly at many times), then that can help jumpstart people who are stuck, but only if they can recognize when it's just a bunch of glop.

    Really, if would be better for them to read a bunch of samples for themselves (which is what the AI does) and hopefully they can get the pattern. What I think is a horrible approach is to sit in a lecture hall and listen to a little guy down front drone in a monotone about the theory of what you are supposed to do, then try to synthesize from the fragments of what you understood from that what is expected. Samples to work from are much more efficient.

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