Your ‘design courses properly’ loses all steam when you realize there has to be an intro level course to everything. Show me math that a computer can’t do but a human can. Show me a famous poem that doesn’t have pages of literary critique written about it. “Oh, if your course involves Shakespeare it’s obviously trash.”
The “AI” is trained on human writing, of course it can find a C average answer to a question about a degree. A fucking degree doesn’t need to be based on cutting edge research - you need a standard to grade something on anyway. You don’t know things until you learn them and not everyone learns the same things at the same time. Of course an AI trained on all written works within… the Internet is going to be able to pass an intro level course. Or do we just start students with a capstone in theoretical physics?
AI is not going to change these courses at all. These intro courses have always had all the answers all over the internet already far before AI showed up, at least at my university they did. If students want to cheat themselves out of those classes, they could before AI and will continue to do so after. There will always be students who are willing to use those easier intro courses to better themselves.
These intro courses have always had all the answers all over the internet already far before AI showed up, at least at my university they did.
I took a political science class in 2018 that had questions the professor wrote in 2010.
And he often asked the questions to be answered before we got them in the class. So sometimes I’d go “what the fuck is he referencing? This wasn’t covered. It’s not in my notes.”
And then I’d just check the question and someone already had the answers up from 2014.
Your ‘design courses properly’ loses all steam when you realize there has to be an intro level course to everything. Show me math that a computer can’t do but a human can. Show me a famous poem that doesn’t have pages of literary critique written about it. “Oh, if your course involves Shakespeare it’s obviously trash.”
The “AI” is trained on human writing, of course it can find a C average answer to a question about a degree. A fucking degree doesn’t need to be based on cutting edge research - you need a standard to grade something on anyway. You don’t know things until you learn them and not everyone learns the same things at the same time. Of course an AI trained on all written works within… the Internet is going to be able to pass an intro level course. Or do we just start students with a capstone in theoretical physics?
AI is not going to change these courses at all. These intro courses have always had all the answers all over the internet already far before AI showed up, at least at my university they did. If students want to cheat themselves out of those classes, they could before AI and will continue to do so after. There will always be students who are willing to use those easier intro courses to better themselves.
I took a political science class in 2018 that had questions the professor wrote in 2010.
And he often asked the questions to be answered before we got them in the class. So sometimes I’d go “what the fuck is he referencing? This wasn’t covered. It’s not in my notes.”
And then I’d just check the question and someone already had the answers up from 2014.