My students are often surprised to learn that LLMs aren’t answering their questions. Rather, an LLM answers the question “what would a reply to this look like?” It’s one of the first things I explain in the “Should I use LLMs?” portion of my syllabus.
@mcnees had to think of your recent case
@DanielleVossebeld. Could a piece of text on working and effect of LLM / AI on students development help a bit in behavioural change? Raise awareness why 'cheating' is not beneficial?
@Frieke72 @mcnees @DanielleVossebeld I think that assumes that most students attend college to learn stuff. In my experience this is not true: many attend to get a piece of paper that qualifies them to do a job that gets them money and/or prestige. Computer science is probably one of the worse fields for this.
@DrSuzanne @Frieke72 @DanielleVossebeld @mcnees I could be wrong / outdated but Times Higher Education was full of articles about the tension between "market-readiness" vs a humanistic education when I worked at the University of Westminster. And before that it was so common that "doing it for the CV" was a running joke at University of Warwick on my BA.
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