The role of the University is to resist AI
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The role of the University is to resist AI
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Re: The role of the University is to resist AI
#2Oh hell no.
This is like saying mathematics should avoid the calculator.
Don't be so naive, the only AI models have are able to perform more powerful contextual lookups and reference and on the case of chat bots hallucinate when this fails.
These tools have no agency, people who blindly trust it beyond this are the highest of fools and don't understand garbage in garbage out.
The role of a university is to train in the use of tools and that includes the squishy one used for critical thinking. If the university wasn't doing that before now it wasn't doing its job.
None of this pseudo intellectualism and politico opinion posting.
Re: The role of the University is to resist AI
#3Students are like the electrical current, given the path with least resistance they will follow it(as with most of people). Cutting off such a path is NP hard to do at scale IMO. But definitely agree on the idea of the article.
Re: The role of the University is to resist AI
#4Students are like the electrical current, given the path with least resistance they will follow it(as with most of people). Cutting off such a path is NP hard to do at scale IMO. But definitely agree on the idea of the article.
A damning statement of the masses.
How about LLM do away with the pointless painful and thankless brute forcing of huge databases of physical paper to find the key piece of information you want to check something against. Teaching that, that is what academic study is leads to the misconception that writing enough about something makes it valid. A serious problem in many of the areas of new academic prostration.
I'd say this opens research to a new audience who otherwise wouldn't go near it, but frankly we see what damage the internet did to society after people said this in the 90s so yes maybe put it back in the box...
Re: The role of the University is to resist AI
#5The role of the University is to curate datasets useful for building new models, and perhaps training those models.
Re: The role of the University is to resist AI
#6Schools in general are doomed to complete obsolescence now, as every kid can have their own personal AI tutor. Doesn't look much better for universities. Outside of lab work and testing, there is just no further need for them. There, I said it.
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#7We exist in an era in which coursework as a medium of assessment has suddenly become nearly worthless. It does not surprise me that since this is the way things have been done for centuries they haven’t quickly rustled up some easy solutions.
Re: The role of the University is to resist AI
#8The role of the University is to curate datasets useful for building new models, and perhaps training those models.
If the cost of doing so ever truely drops then yes, verified pure signal to train models on vs everything ever written would make for better models :)
Re: The role of the University is to resist AI
#9This post is close to pure waffle. Yes there are parts of common sense but just to give some example “spice” thrown in amongst other lines:
> Deep learning has historical and epistemological connections to eugenics through its mathematics, its metrics and through concepts like AGI, and we shouldn't be surprised if and when it gets applied in education to weed out 'useless learners'.
It might be partially correct but this is similar to saying Germans should not be trusted because of WWII.
(sad face) this post subtracts from the valid arguments against the usage of AI tools in some valid scenarios, it is because some folks have a knee jerk reaction and label authors as Luddites
Re: The role of the University is to resist AI
#10Schools in general are doomed to complete obsolescence now, as every kid can have their own personal AI tutor. Doesn't look much better for universities. Outside of lab work and testing, there is just no further need for them. There, I said it.
That's what people said about Google. Don't worry the worthwhile universities aren't going anywhere.