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I don't trust LLM's to create novel ideas, and I'd never copy paste any AI output. Would I rework the output or maby use certain through processes, maby. But I'
by tonetegeatinst 2y ago
I don't trust LLM's to create novel ideas, and I'd never copy paste any AI output. Would I rework the output or maby use certain through processes, maby. But I'm not trusting an AI blindly, its a statistical capture of its training data not a magic wand.
That said, most professors still force students to write code on paper with no autocorrect, google, or even access to the reference documentation which seems counter productive. I remember when people were calling auto completing text editors cheating, yet despite how much we accept auto complete or how many professional developers use AI tools, were still forcing college students to use pen and paper and trying to memorize syntax and all the functions of a library, all because professors can't be decent enough to even allow access to notes or the basic language or library docs.
The AI or the documentation isn't going to solve your problems. Its enabling you to not memorize an entire language that you might not even work with in your career. Do I think their is people who can and will misuse the technology, yep you bet ya. But we need to stop forcing people to suffer due to the people who disregard the rules.
You can also tell a major difference between someone who just uses AI to write the essay or paper, and someone who uses it to develop better ideas or arguments and develop multiple ways of phrasing something. LLM's are nothing new, just like how computer vision has been good for a long time.(see opencv, YOLO, and DARKNET)
- SoftTalker 2y agoI'm probably in a small minority but I don't use auto-completion in code editors. I dislike it, and find it disrupts my thinking.
- beej71 2y agoI'm also in that minority. And I think there's something to be said for memorizing that stuff instead of letting autocomplete always handle it. I think it might improve your mental tapestry you draw on to solve problems. It might be slower and better to not autocomplete everything. ChatGPT says that autocomplete is better. :) :) :)
- vel0city 2y agoI agree with this. I'll use AI as a starting point to begin to understand a new topic or help flesh out definitions of things, but it's a starting point of knowledge not the final destination. Kind of like looking up something in an encyclopedia or Wikipedia; I'm using it for a quick essence of the knowledge, so I know more of what to dig into later.