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God this first paragraph made me want to throw my computer across the room: > Remember when people were furious about kids using ChatGPT to cheat on their home

God this first paragraph made me want to throw my computer across the room: > Remember when people were furious about kids using ChatGPT to cheat on their homework? If I may be so bold as to psychoanalyze the United States of America, it’s possible the hysteria was not entirely about homework but also the speed with which artificial intelligence was infiltrating our daily lives. How else do you explain so many people defending the sanctity of a thing none of them ever wanted to do? "When you were 13 years old you wanted to cheat on your homework, did you not? But now that you're 45 and your son is using ChatGPT to cheat on his homework, suddenly you're upset. Curious. Perhaps the issue is your own discomfort with technology your feeble brain can't understand?"

beambot 3y ago
Meanwhile, I spend a non-trivial amount of time every week deflecting questions that could reasonably be solved by a well-crafted Google query... Schools would be much better off fostering curiosity, self-reliance, tool use, and practical problem solving rather than the all-too-common busy work. So I can relate to what they're saying (to a degree) about AI. This acutely reminds me of the transition from basic calculators & lookup tables to scientific calculators to graphing calculators to mathematica/maple. At every step, people said "that's cheating". Now we just accept them as tools. Life moves on.
- nicklecompte 3y ago
  We don't "accept them as tools" in all academic contexts! In many cases using a TI-89 in a calculus class truly is cheating. Likewise with using ChatGPT in an English class.
1vuio0pswjnm7 3y ago
This comment is confusing. Did the 45-year-old cheat when they were 13.
- nicklecompte 3y ago
  There are three distinct "voices" in my comment: - the first line is me, being so annoyed at the article that I want to destroy a laptop - the blockquote is a quote from the article itself, including a really dumb, condescending rhetorical device about "sanctity of homework" - the part in quotation marks is mocking the author

beambot 3y ago

Meanwhile, I spend a non-trivial amount of time every week deflecting questions that could reasonably be solved by a well-crafted Google query... Schools would be much better off fostering curiosity, self-reliance, tool use, and practical problem solving rather than the all-too-common busy work. So I can relate to what they're saying (to a degree) about AI. This acutely reminds me of the transition from basic calculators & lookup tables to scientific calculators to graphing calculators to mathematica/maple. At every step, people said "that's cheating". Now we just accept them as tools. Life moves on.

nicklecompte 3y ago
We don't "accept them as tools" in all academic contexts! In many cases using a TI-89 in a calculus class truly is cheating. Likewise with using ChatGPT in an English class.

1vuio0pswjnm7 3y ago

This comment is confusing. Did the 45-year-old cheat when they were 13.

nicklecompte 3y ago
There are three distinct "voices" in my comment: - the first line is me, being so annoyed at the article that I want to destroy a laptop - the blockquote is a quote from the article itself, including a really dumb, condescending rhetorical device about "sanctity of homework" - the part in quotation marks is mocking the author