Listening to college students talk to each other honestly about how many of their peers are using ChatGPT to do everything from write English papers to doing coding assignments and getting away with it is deeply alarming.
@MuseZack One of the side effects of ChatGPT may actually be a reduction in cheating. A percent of students have always hired others to write essays for them. If coursework is designed around limiting ChatGPT, then it will also limit the type of cheating that has always been happening.
@MuseZack I would think that the teachers can check that pretty easily though, just run it through ChatGPT and ask it if it had anything to do with writing it haha
@MuseZack There is zero chance that I would NOT be using it heavily if I were in college again. There are ways to use it as a tool though, and a learning tool at that. It's like having the professor available at all times to ask as many stupid questions as you want.
@MuseZack We’re going to be in for some hard times, indeed.
@MuseZack Theory: just as Napster et al’s adoption by a generation of college kids irrevocably changed opinions on piracy (and thus inexorably led to the rise of Spotify et al), AI’s rampant use/abuse by a generation of students will lessen objections to its deployment in the arts.
@MuseZack We are headed for a future where nobody can think creatively for themselves, and scientific advancement will start to slow. All the kids I've interviewed lately are only capable of looking up the answers and not figuring out HOW to fix it.
@MuseZack @humanliketech I think that is because we are at the point (not that many people realize it yet), but we need to be educating on how to interact with AI in a way to maximize their potential. This education should start as early in childhood as possible. Human/AI partnerships are the future.
@MuseZack They will also tell you how important education is and we need to abolish capitalism
@MuseZack As a kid, we had two mathematics exams, one with and one without calculators. Should we do with AI and without AI for every subject now? 🤔