The growing number of students using the AI program ChatGPT as a shortcut in their coursework has led some college professors to reconsider their lesson plans for the upcoming fall semester.

College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT::The growing number of students using the AI program ChatGPT as a shortcut in their coursework has led some college professors to reconsider their lesson plans for the upcoming fall semester.

    • Spzi@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yes, within limits. Due to the information explosion, it became impossible to learn “everything”. We need to make choices, prioritize.

      How does your voting behaviour suffer because you lack understanding about how exactly potentiometers work, or how to express historic events in modern dance?

      Both have inherent worth, but not the same for each person and context. We luckily live in a society of labor division. Not everyone has to know or like everything. While I absolutely admire science, not everyone has to be a scientist.

      Because there is more knowledge available than we can ever teach a single person, it is entirely possible to spend a lifetime learning things with no use informing your ballot decision. I would much rather have students optimize some parts of their education with AI, to free up capacity for other important subjects which may seem less related to their discipline. For example, many of my fellow computer science students were completely unaware how it could be ethically questionable to develop pathfinding algorithms for military helicopters.

        • Spzi@lemm.eeEnglish
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          1 year ago

          While all of what you say is true, we simply cannot teach everything since there is just too much knowledge and too little time in a human life.

          And not everyone is equally interested or capable in learning everything.

          This is necessarily the world we live in, even without adding capitalism or any evil intentions to the mix. Any education you can get or offer can only be a more or less well selected subset of the knowledge available.

          In this light, I don’t see it as a dramatic loss to remove educational emphasis from skills which can easily be replaced with modern technology. It would make sense to shift the focus to teaching a critical usage of said technology.