heyWhatsayMar 14

Professors Say AI Is Destroying Their Students' Ability to Think

https://slrpnk.net/post/35298897

Professors Say AI Is Destroying Their Students' Ability to Think - SLRPNK

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Show threadtheBATCLAMMar 14

It’s absolutely terrifying. I am a returning student to uni in my thirties and the only person not using any AI. They literally depend on it.

I just had a classmate the other day turn to me, frustrated, saying “You ever ask chat(gpt) a question and it gives you a whole, like, paragraph you then have to read? like, why can’t it simplify it?”

So yeah, even reading paragraphs is too much for these people. Future workforce is fucking cooked.

Show threadstolyMar 14
I’m almost 50 doing a doctorate in engineering. ChatGPT is very helpful to do homework but won’t really teach you to do things. That said, I’m very glad to have it because this program would be so much harder without something to check my answers and understanding.
Show threadhexagonwinMar 14
…except that it doesn’t really “check your answers and understanding”…
Show threadstolyMar 14
Sure it does. It’s a calculator and can tell me if I did my statistics homework correctly. I can also ask it to summarize a concept I find difficult.
Show threadraspberriesareyummy
With that naivety you are setting yourself up for failure.
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Show threadstolyMar 14

I have a long, successful career. I am doing this program for personal growth and to create a challenge for myself. Please stop projecting your impressions on my life, I am my own person and very confident in what I have accomplished.

Edit: I got downvoted for being confident in my successes. Really?

Show threadraspberriesareyummyMar 14
I am not objecting to you to learn something new. The naivety is what you display assuming you can use LLMs to “check your homework”.
Show threadsheetzoosMar 15
This is an echo chamber. Logical and rational thoughts will be downvoted if they go against the narrative. Don’t take it personally.
Show threadstolyMar 15
Yeah I didn’t realize just how deeply people were into the projected angst before now. Thank you.
Show threadTollana1234567Mar 16
i dont know if you’re trolling but you would be making a pretty poor engineer if you are using a something to check your answers that may or may not be right, and not use an actual engineering calculator. how would you know your answers are correct in the forest place if you took them from an LLM. its literally just equivalant to finding the answers on a website and copy and pasting it to your hw, you arnt learning anything, and people who done that have been shown to do very poorly on tests.
Show threadvischMar 14
How old are you and what doctorates do you have? Calling this 50yo naive with the 2 sentences of context is pretty wild.
Show threadraspberriesareyummyMar 15

How old are you and what doctorates do you have?

We’re not in a dick-swinging contest here. At least I am not :) What a dumb way to deflect from the point I am making. If you have any understanding of the matter, you know that LLMs are only statistically accurate, and mathematically, that is useless.