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Should have let the kids use AI during exam too, later in life they will be solving tasks with AI not manually. Just make the test questions difficult enough even with AI. I see our current approach like a driving school training its students at fast running.
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> help. It could explain concepts in a way that might help you understand better People say that all the time, but does anyone really think a lack of good explanations for things is a limiting factor in 2026? Or even 2010?
When I was in college, we had office hours with the prof and the TAs, we had group study sessions, and private tutors. Or you could ask your friends. All of those required going somewhere at a specific place and time and asking someone else to give up their time for you. AI gives you a way to get the same help without asking another human. Say of that what you will, but not everyone was comfortable asking other human…
The act of building the mental muscle is what creates education.
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Yes, but is it the correct answer? I wasted several days trying to have AI teach me containers. I would have been much better off just reading the docs.
The knowledge AI has is vast. Communicating it to you is slow and narrow baud. The chat interface itself as a medium is lacking and will need to be replaced without another medium.
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There is no such thing as a European school. Each country is different. And if the country is a federation, each state might be different. And we have homework in most European countries I’m aware of. What are you basing that claim on?
A European school is a school in Europe. All of my European peers in grad school reporting similar experiences.
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I thought that it was generally accepted by now that homework in the volumes that it is being assigned in the modern day was not found to be beneficial in any significant way in the first place? Maybe once all students start outsourcing it to AI it might finally die like it deserves to. People these days grow up with almost no free time for themselves, it's all school, sports/extracurriculars or homework nonstop. All…
All play and no work makes for an even more dysfunctional society. Kids need to do their homework, both to train their minds but also to develop integrity and work ethic. Being able to diligently work toward a distant goal is not something you're born with.
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There is zero evidence for this. LLMs make significant mistakes frequently and smart people have no way of judging those mistakes outside their domain expertise. They are also sycophantic and great at being an echo chamber which makes people feel smart even if they are not. So I think the burden of proof is on you to prove that they somehow amplify intelligence, it seems highly unlikely.
No evidence but somewhat of a counterpoints: Smart people know LLMs confabulate and tell them they’re Absolutely Right! Smart people don’t want to be embarrassed by trusting the hallucination machine and revealing their gullibility to others.
The kids who used AI and studied for a similar amount of time as the non-AI high performers apparently had similar (slightly higher) performance. The kids who used AI and did poorly used the AI to do the homework for them (this is what the article says). I believe AI is basically an amplifier of bad and good. I’m cynical about the world and assume it will be used more for bad than good, but I don’t doubt some of the…
The data point around 80 minutes seems like noise to me. Looks like there isn't enough data/students who spend that much time and also used AI.
It would be nice if AI was a force for good as well as bad, but the data here doesn't support it
All AI did here is exposed an old problem in education. Kids are expected to get everything perfectly for the first time but a lot of them don't so the class gets easier next year to keep up pass rates. We need to restructure the system to treat failure as a signal instead of a disaster. Grades should come from hard randomized exams with unlimited retakes so one bad day won't hurt you. Homework should be optional mat…
Exams will have to be a lot longer if you allow unlimited retakes. Generally exams work on a sample principle, but this breaks with retakes.
The kids who used AI and studied for a similar amount of time as the non-AI high performers apparently had similar (slightly higher) performance. The kids who used AI and did poorly used the AI to do the homework for them (this is what the article says). I believe AI is basically an amplifier of bad and good. I’m cynical about the world and assume it will be used more for bad than good, but I don’t doubt some of the…
The dangerous thing about amplifying is that bad people are often more willing to amplify their activities, because they don't care about the negative effects. We are seeing this now as AI companies (and large companies of all kinds) rush to secure whatever advantages they can, regardless of the negative externalities. Meanwhile people who actually care about doing the right thing get trampled. We need to shift the i…
I think we don't yet know the long term view - what is harmful or damaging in the long run. Too early to tell and pass judgements. Every new technology from writing to internet had its detractors and they all pointed out negative externalities, as they seemed to appear at the moment.
The kids who used AI and studied for a similar amount of time as the non-AI high performers apparently had similar (slightly higher) performance. The kids who used AI and did poorly used the AI to do the homework for them (this is what the article says). I believe AI is basically an amplifier of bad and good. I’m cynical about the world and assume it will be used more for bad than good, but I don’t doubt some of the…