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wut.
This probably is written by someone who thinks using ai at all is cheating. Rather, it's a practical tool and if you know how to use it, it makes the job faster and allows one to do more. They should be teaching students to use AI - if something can be done better with AI, businesses will want people to use it. Yes, doing some work without is good - just like we teach kids to do some math without calculators, but at some point we don't care because the goal is being able to get shit done efficiently with whatever tools you have.
The point of University is to teach people how to reason. Teaching people how to use AI literally does the exact opposite.
I disagree. Figuring out how to do stuff effectively with AI - and figuring out what can be accomplished with human intelligence augmented with AI is where we need to be.
It's not like using AI is some elusive skill that needs a while lot of training, the whole point is that it in and of itself responds to natural language and responds in kind.
Now building AI systems, training, prompt stuffing, etc, those do warrant some education, but using them... The biggest thing to teach is that their apparent confidence is untethered from their accuracy, but that hardly calls for a significant role in education.
With progressing to calculators, you are offloading basic fundamental tedium to chase larger complexities. Biggest issue there is what complexities are you chasing using the LLM that the LLM can't do in an education context? Keep in mind that for evaluation in education, we frankly don't push things into the unknown, because the evaluator has to know that it is solvable, how it is solvable, and the solutions should be viable as a basis of comparison between students. Pretty much the moment it becomes fodder for education or job interviews, LLMs are going to be pretty good at just doing the whole thing. It's still moderately useless for my professional area, but it can largely whip up a slack knockoff with no problem. A colleague told to evaluate LLM "right now" resorted to "interview ware" for lack of better ideas and it knocked it out of the park and got him excited, then when he tried to put it to work on less well trodden work and was shocked that it had deteriorated to totally useless when he actually needed it.
In short, acknowledge the models and platforms and their usages, but I dont think they should factor significantly for students or job interviews.
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