Tech assholes going on about how GenAI is going to revolutionize education with personalized tutors like in that Neil Stephenson book.
In just one year it completely killed the predominant mode of out-of-class learning used for over a century in higher ed: the research essay.
Preventably.
In just one year it completely killed the predominant mode of out-of-class learning used for over a century in higher ed: the research essay.
Preventably.
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Agree: Ruining the essay as a learning/evaluation tool is a big downside. No writing effort = no thinking.
I see many upsides of AI in education, but I admit they are debatable.
Meanwhile schools are hiring edutech companies to tell them how to use AI in class. We're so far underwater with GenAI's effects on education that it's going to take a lot more than shitty AI tutors to get back to baseline.
Obviously the results were completely unreliable.
https://www.rand.org/pubs/commentary/2024/01/the-case-for-and-against-ai-watermarking.html
I’m dreading them discovering alchemy when they get around to “The Baroque Cycle”
Isn't it because people are obsessed with so called "original work" and view using AI as an easy way out and refuse to give people credit even if their work is objectively good?
Exploring a new subject together with an AI assistant is def a cool way to learn.
Education is for students to benefit from and its ultimately their choice whether they choose to do so.
All the same, I'm very interested in how education (at all levels) is going to adapt to pervasive AI. Or, if it doesn't, what the effect will be when tacked on to long-term decline in literacy, unsupported teachers, and strain in public education.
I’d be more ok with ai if it didn’t steal art and destroy the environment.
Who said this was better?
and What makes employees want to use it?
When will it make the company money?
These AI bots are not products, there is no utlity.