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Students are using AI to write their essays. Teachers are using AI to grade their essays. Engineers are using AI to write code. Other engineers are using AI to
by feross 3y ago
Students are using AI to write their essays. Teachers are using AI to grade their essays.
Engineers are using AI to write code. Other engineers are using AI to review that code.
Same thing will happen in many other areas of life.
- jsheard 3y agoEmail is needlessly padded out by an AI writing assistant. Recipient uses AI to generate the tl;dr version.
- moffkalast 3y agoThe 8th OSI layer.
- dottjt 3y agoThe absolute worst case where I see this is in generating acceptance criteria for tickets. It drives me insane, because so many of the acceptance criteria needlessly overlap so it's even harder to figure out what's going on.
- akira2501 3y agoStudents and teachers using AI to do their work for them is unethical. I'm not convinced engineers are broadly using AI to write anything important, or that AI code reviews are a significant part of any companies bottom line. This is a CNN article written by someone lacking the sophistication to actually handle the subject.
- ramon156 3y agoI'm glad Harmonic lets you filter some articles. the guardian, cnn and bcc articles have become a tumor on my timeline.
- gpderetta 3y agoMaybe the article was written by an AI. Maybe this comment too!
- AlienRobot 3y agoIn hindsight perhaps this wasn't the best username to pick...
- RobotToaster 3y agoTo quote Zizek: "that AI will be the death of learning & so on; to this, I say NO! My student brings me their essay, which has been written by AI, & I plug it into my grading AI, & we are free! While the 'learning' happens, our superego satisfied, we are free now to learn whatever we want"
- Joker_vD 3y ago...why even bother with essays at all then. This is some kind of insane "they pretend to pay us, we pretend to work" setup that benefits nobody.
- zamfi 3y ago> benefits nobody That would be the point. Why bother at all?
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- acchow 3y agoStudents shouldn’t be turning in essays. They should turn in the chat history with an LLM. We need to go beyond just putting your own thoughts into words but instead guiding students on how to explore and hone their own thoughts with AI. If they come up with metprocesses to game this, that’s a win.
- Joker_vD 3y ago
- cjk2 3y agoSome of us take pride in the fact we aren't. I suspect we'll be all that is left in the information decay we face.
- mateo1 3y agoLearning is unique as the whole point is to do the thinking yourself.
- saurik 3y agoAdvertisers are using AI to write ad copy. Consumers are using AI to read and ignore ads. So, developers and users get into an AI war over CAPTCHAs. ...and, well, welcome to the latent dystopia :(.
- rkagerer 3y agoConsumers are using AI to read and ignore ads Could you share some examples? (genuine question)
- saurik 3y agoWell, that's in some sense what these new large language models are all about: if all I want is the information from a website, it makes much more sense for me to have an AI read it and give me a summary than to wade through ads... but that means the only ad impressions are from AI bots... which means more attempts at enforcing that actual human eyeballs see ads... which means more captchas and more digital rights management. And, lo and behold, right around the time that this become an issue, we see Google starting to lead the charge on merging WebDRM into Chrome, and every social media company locking down their content with login walls and refusing alternative clients. This use case is just going to get bigger, though: the premise of ad blockers has a manifest destiny on just looking at the page and picking out the ads, which is possible and not particularly difficult to do even in the ridiculous case of a web page returning its content as a single giant PNG file, even if the ad is a watermark, and even if the "ad" is just a bunch of conspicuous mentions of Mountain Dew strewn throughout every time a placeholder noun is required. (I am legally obligated to note here that this comment was sponsored by Mountain Dew.)
- teaearlgraycold 3y agoMostly I find AI is useful for software engineering in very legitimate ways. It's a far better alternative to Stack Overflow. It's super helpful when writing boilerplate.
- klyrs 3y agoWhen ChatGPT writes its own LLM to offload all the stupid shit that humanity asks of it, we'll know that it's actually intelligent.
- contravariant 3y agoJust today I was thinking it may turn out to be beneficial for LLMs to be kept unaware of their own nature. So in some sense there is a chance that this has already happened.
- klyrs 3y agoAwareness implies consciousness. So good news, LLMs are already unaware of their own nature.
- moffkalast 3y agoIf you search the r/localllama community on reddit, there have been attempts at fine tuning base models with all references to AI and assistants and that sort of thing removed, in trying to convince the model that it's actually human. What really results from that is a fundamental disconnect of what it thinks it can do and what it can physically do, it's like a cognitive dissonance simulator that quickly derails itself. The best models know exactly what they are, and it's what seemingly keeps them self consistent and coherent.
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