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The problem can be fixed: adjust or realign the business model and incentives around the needs of the stakeholders. - Students want a credential because busine
by jschveibinz 2mo ago
The problem can be fixed: adjust or realign the business model and incentives around the needs of the stakeholders.
- Students want a credential because business and society demands a credential
- Universities want income to support their missions of research, education and other "motives"
- Professors want to do research, and they don't really want to teach (in general)
- AI is a resource for learning, assessment and project development
- Society needs educated people
What ideas do you have to make everyone satisfied and maximally functional?
- logicchains 2mo agoGo back to the old approach where degrees/credentials are conferred based on discussion/debate with the professors and an on-paper exam at end of year, with no attendance or classes required. Then just have the professors provide a syllabus and potential students work through it themselves, asking an AI to explain anything that's unclear. Professors can get their funding from the government and industry; in future it won't make sense for students to pay tens of thousands of dollars a year to get at most an hour of daily one-on-one time with professors, when for a fraction of that cost they could be getting 24/7 tutoring/discussion from an LLM that's at least as knowledgeable. Someone will ask, what about people who are incapable of motivating themselves to study? Well they'd feel a lot more motivation to study if it meant saving tens of thousands of dollars. As for people completely incapable of independent learning, they'd likely have little employability in the future in any case, because people would rather hire an AI than that kind of person.