ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
  • Zenith@lemm.ee
    12·
    22 hours ago

    When education focuses on correct answers and standardized tests and not developing logic, critical thinking, leaning strategies and cultivating understanding of concepts there’s no reason to not use AI, it’s not like students are being educated when they’re being taught how to pass tests as the top priority so the school can secure more funding. The bane of the game is “give me the right answer” not “demonstrate your understanding” students are simply being efficient

  • JollyG@lemmy.world
    23·
    1 day ago

    I’ve got a buddy who is a professor and he catches llm cheaters by asking them difficult questions like “what was your essay about?” and “what were the three points you made in your essay?”. I’m sure llm proponents will offer some bromide about “tools aren’t inherently good or bad”, but it seems like the reality in college is llm tools are used for cheating.

    • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      15 hours ago

      I can’t imagine the nightmare that is being a teacher nowadays, but also that is absolutely the fault of the individual. I had many ways I could cheat in school prior to AI and did not.

    • Genius@lemmy.zip
      12·
      21 hours ago

      Sure tools are inherently good or bad. Nuclear bombs are inherently bad and mindfulness meditation is inherently good.

    • Punkie@lemmy.world
      11·
      1 day ago

      It’s pretty scary: I am seeing it in the IT sector as well. It’s not just knowledge; anyone can look up things, even Einstein did it. “I never memorize anything that I can look up,” he said once, about the why he never memorized cosine tables and such. But it’s basic logical flow of thought and problem solving. Like the skills behind the knowledge, that I see less and less of.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    101·
    1 day ago

    From one of my comments in a thread three days ago when discussing Meta’s new glasses:

    https://lemmy.today/post/28724654/16057604

    I don’t totally get the use case for cameras plus single screen on lens. I guess maybe you could take a picture of someone’s face, upload the photo to Meta, do facial recognition on it, and then have personal details sent back to the screen at the bottom of your right eye. Like, maybe that’d be useful for people who don’t want to be in a position of awkwardly forgetting names or security personnel or something.

    From the article:

    This time, Lee attempted a viral launch with a $140,000 scripted advertisement in which a young software engineer, played by Lee, uses Cluely installed on his glasses to lie his way through a first date with an older woman. When the date starts going south, Cluely suggests Lee “reference her art” and provides a script for him to follow. “I saw your profile and the painting with the tulips. You are the most gorgeous girl ever,” Lee reads off his glasses, which rescues his chances with her.

    Ah.