This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Honest question: how do we measure critical thinking and creativity in students?
If we're going to claim that education is being destroyed (and show we're better than our great^n grandparents complaining about the printing press), I think we should try to have actual data instead of these think-pieces and anecdata from teachers. Every other technology that the kids were using had think-pieces and anecdata.
As far as I can tell, the strongest data is wrt literacy and numeracy, and both of those are dropping linearly with previous downward trends from before AI, am I wrong? We're also still seeing kids from lockdown, which seems like a much more obvious 'oh that's a problem' than the AI stuff.
I'm thinking the only way people will be able to do schoolwork without cheating now is going to be to make them sit in a monitored room and finish it there.
The cynical view of America’s educational system—that it is merely a means by which privileged co-eds can make the right connections, build “social capital,” and get laid—is obviously on full display here.
Cynical? I call that realistic. That's what privileged co-eds have been using it for the past 100 years.
Produce army of people that rely on corporate products to stay alive. What can go wrong ?
Maybe the best headline that's come out of the recent LLM explosion
The fact people can't even use their own common sense on Twitter without using AI for context shows we are in a scary place. AI is not some all knowing magic 8 ball and puts out a ton of misinformation.
How are other countries handling it? I can't imagine AI being an American only education issue.
I work in higher education making online courses. It’s really stressing everyone out.
Yeah my university (California State University system) has some chatgpt school partnership now.
