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> GenAI is a threat to student learning and wellbeing. This blanket dismissal is not going to age well, and reads like a profession lashing out. With the righ
by xnx 1y ago
> GenAI is a threat to student learning and wellbeing.
This blanket dismissal is not going to age well, and reads like a profession lashing out.
With the right system prompt, AI can be a patient, understanding, encouraging, non-judgemental tutor that adapts and moves at the student's pace. Most students can not afford that type of human tutor, but an AI one could be free or very affordable.
"How AI Could Save (Not Destroy) Education" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJP5GqnTrNo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJP5GqnTrNo) from Sal Khan of Khan Academy
- avmich 1y agoMost student can not afford the expertise necessary to have AI patient etc. I think the original phrase was made with the assumption "as it is right now". I do share concerns of undersigned, even though don't necessarily agree with all statements in the letter.
- happytoexplain 1y agoIt's not a blanket dismissal, it's a fact in context. It should read like a profession lashing out - that's what it is. AI has enormous upsides and enormous downsides. The "you're going to look so dumb in the future" dismissal is lazy. Inevitability does not make something purely beneficial. It's a fallacious line of thinking that's disappointingly common in tech-minded people (frequently seen in partnership with implications that Luddites were bad or stupid, quotes from historical criticisms of computers/calculators, and other immature usage of metaphor).
- xnx 1y agoI'd respect the statement more if it acknowledged that AI had some benefit, or potential benefit in the future, but they did not want to use it currently.
- lawlessone 1y agoMaybe if we move from LLMS to real AI it will have benefits.
- ktallett 1y agoIf you are using the most commonly available AI and have an average ability of perfecting a search term, right now AI is not a particularly useful tool in learning anything. It is far too inaccurate to learn anything challenging. The key term here is could, and yes it is possible but there is nothing yet to say we shall get there.
- netsharc 1y ago> AI can be a patient, understanding, encouraging, non-judgemental tutor Groan... no it can't. It can simulate all those things, but at the moment, "AI" can't be patient, understanding, and whether judgemental or non-judgemental. OK it can be encouraging. "You're one good student, $STUDENT_NAME!" (1). 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRPPdm09xZ8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRPPdm09xZ8
- abletonlive 1y agoI can say the exact same thing about you or anybody else. You can’t be patient, understanding, encouraging, non-judgmental tutor. You can only simulate it. I really can’t understand why people don’t understand this. What am I missing?
- binary132 1y agoPhilosophical zombies are supposed to be a thought experiment to demonstrate that solipsism and nihilism are stupid, not a rhetorical device to equate human minds to linear algebra statistical parrots.
- netsharc 1y agoGeezus freaking christ. Now is that a simulation of someone who thinks he's responding to a cretin... or actually the feelings of someone who thinks he's talking to a cretin?
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- binary132 1y agoThis simulation is too realistic. I’d like to stop the game now please.
- hulitu 1y ago> What am I missing? You are missing what this "AI" is: a guessing system based on some patterns.
- Loughla 1y agoMy experience in higher education is that students use AI for one of two things: 1. To do the homework because they view classes and grades as a barrier to their future instead of preparation for such. 2. In place of a well crafted query in an academic database.