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The role of the University is to resist AI

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How do you know what questions to ask? How do you know the LLM is giving a good answer? Asking questions and getting answers is only one part of learning; another, more important part, that's missing is putting it in context and laying it out in a manner that teaches the topic in a way that develops actual expertise. This is one part of the actual role of educators - which aren't going to go anywhere. To say nothing…

Yes, you design a curriculum and feed it to the LLM. One person con do that for a course once, and then you can broadly leave it like that, with occasional updates - while each student gets their own personal teacher. Educational cost could plummet like a rock while significantly improving results, if we just dare to allow it! > wouldn't it be even more important for employers to be able to vet potential hires Yes, I…

> School as we know it is a dead institution walking, and good riddance, and I very much hope the universities as we know them will cease to exists right along with it.

Also, when can we expect this to happen? I mean, I've been waiting for this since computers, then the Internet, and now LLMs have been around for several years, so just curious.

Re: The role of the University is to resist AI

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It seem rather an unfortunate take. Universities have always been about both education and research to understand the world. Ignoring one of the main things happening in the world these days seems to go against that, like a few centuries ago saying the role of the university is to resist science or the printing press or something.
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