College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT::The growing number of students using the AI program ChatGPT as a shortcut in their coursework has led some college professors to reconsider their lesson plans for the upcoming fall semester.
That argument is great until someone gets maimed or killed because the “AI” got it wrong and the user didn’t know enough to realize.
Because of an essay?
We need to teach people to work with technology. Not pretend it doesnt exist. When these models came out, the world changed. If you arent using them right now you are being left behind
The point of college is to teach people the material, not see if they can use an AI. The AI could be wrong, and we need people to know when it is wrong.
We still teach people arithmetic, even though calculators exist, because we want people to understand the logic and reason behind the tools they use.
Yes, or “AI generated software.”
It’s fine if you use it as something supplementary (i.e., a really fast “I would’ve typed roughly this anyways”). However, you absolutely shouldn’t trust it to get things right when you have no knowledge of the subject matter.
🙄 the world didn’t change; a new overhyped technology appeared. Like the cloud, smart phone, voice assistant, etc, it’ll find its place. However, it’s place isn’t everywhere or writing all your essays, thoughts, opinions, and reports that you don’t want to do.