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> Is there really any value in having profs generate thousands of different explanations of the same concept for the same topic? I don’t think so, especially as
by diffxx 2y ago
> Is there really any value in having profs generate thousands of different explanations of the same concept for the same topic? I don’t think so, especially as most don’t put much effort in.
Would you be satisfied with a professor who is mindlessly reading back to you information from external course materials? I know I wasn't when I was in school. It was only the professors who made the effort to teach what _they_ knew who were worth learning from.
- tombert 2y agoThere can be a mix though. I mentioned in a sibling comment that I used ChatGPT to generate homework. I tried pretty hard to get it to generate questions that I thought would be fun and interesting, instead of kind of boring cookie-cutter stuff that was in every textbook (e.g. shapes and animals to represent classes and inheritance and interfaces...boring!). I was very happy with the results (my favorite was getting the students to implement a rough version of the Pokemon battle system in Java). I was a bit of a weird professor since I had like 11 years of industry experience at the time, and had been a college dropout not long before I was a professor (I did have my bachelors and was pursuing a doctorate while teaching, don't worry), and I do think that I was able to put a unique spin on things and explain stuff from a more industrial perspective, but I honestly feel like AI helped me with that, instead of making the stuff boring by regurgitating the textbook.