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I think most people do not pay for teachers' quality. People pay for the diploma's brand. (Which is a proxy of the probability of landing a good job after gradu

I think most people do not pay for teachers' quality. People pay for the diploma's brand. (Which is a proxy of the probability of landing a good job after graduation.) For that use case, as long as the chatbot teachers don't degrade the university's brand name, I think most people won't care. They might even actually prefer it. (I graduated from the top engineering university in my country and I'd certainly prefer ChatGPT over the vast majority of the TAs I had).

agentgumshoe 3y ago
This is not the solution you think it is. How do you determine how knowledgeable the chatbot is? Or is 'the computer told me so it's correct' good enough these days?
- relativ575 3y ago
  > How do you determine how knowledgeable the chatbot is? The same way you determine if a professor is knowledgeable -- they are employed by a school with certain level of reputation that you are comfortable to attend.
thumbuddy 3y ago
Considering degrees in CS are becoming less and less meaningful I personally wouldn't be investing in a branded one. Especially not in this economy.
Melchizedek 3y ago
That is something that I think hasn’t been fully realized yet - that many people will actually prefer AIs to most humans.
GuB-42 3y ago
It is not just the brand, there is also the environment. A good university will be full of smart people, student and teachers alike. You essentially learn by contact. There are also rich and influential people, who can provide you with great job opportunities. It all goes hand in hand: the brand, teachers quality, student quality, the infrastructures,... Worse teacher may affect the brand negatively, the smartest students may want to go elsewhere, the rich, who want to be with the smart will leave too, which will affect funding, meaning less infrastructure and be less attractive to the best teachers and researchers. It is all connected.

agentgumshoe 3y ago

This is not the solution you think it is. How do you determine how knowledgeable the chatbot is? Or is 'the computer told me so it's correct' good enough these days?

relativ575 3y ago
> How do you determine how knowledgeable the chatbot is? The same way you determine if a professor is knowledgeable -- they are employed by a school with certain level of reputation that you are comfortable to attend.

thumbuddy 3y ago

Considering degrees in CS are becoming less and less meaningful I personally wouldn't be investing in a branded one. Especially not in this economy.

Melchizedek 3y ago

That is something that I think hasn’t been fully realized yet - that many people will actually prefer AIs to most humans.

GuB-42 3y ago

It is not just the brand, there is also the environment. A good university will be full of smart people, student and teachers alike. You essentially learn by contact. There are also rich and influential people, who can provide you with great job opportunities. It all goes hand in hand: the brand, teachers quality, student quality, the infrastructures,... Worse teacher may affect the brand negatively, the smartest students may want to go elsewhere, the rich, who want to be with the smart will leave too, which will affect funding, meaning less infrastructure and be less attractive to the best teachers and researchers. It is all connected.