Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Universities are being disrupted. Everyone is going to have to rethink their role is society with AI, Universities included.
Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Universities are being disrupted. Everyone is going to have to rethink their role is society with AI, Universities included.
deranger@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The best part about AI is people are shooting themselves in the foot using it at school, where you’re supposed to learn things, and it will make the rest of us not nearly as dependent on a LLM rise to the top. I truly do not understanding cheating in college. If you’re not learning, what’s the fucking point? How well are you going to perform without access to that LLM? Good grades are not the point of college.
nickhammes@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Imagine borrowing $200k for an education, and then doing as little work as you can to actually learn the things you’re paying to know
the_q@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Imagine borrowing $200k for an education, and then doing as much work as you can to actually learn the things you’re paying to know and then not being able to get a job
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
You frame that as if the same can’t happen if you use AI. At least if you actually do the work you have the knowledge and the ability to research.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Imagine lacking the curiosity to want to take this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to learn interesting new things with all the resources at your fingertips. I think the root of the problem is that capitalist society sends students the message that learning is valuable only as a means to make more money.
nickhammes@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I was one of the people who went to college to learn things, but the more I learn, the more I’m saddened by all the people I went to school with who studied things they didn’t enjoy, didn’t particularly care to get better at, all because they saw it as a way to make money. In optimizing for money, they miss out on learning and fulfillment.
This wasn’t that long ago, but I can only imagine how much heavy GenAI use could intensify that effect
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Most people can’t afford to go to Universities for the purpose of research. Most people go to Universities for a specific college (every university is requured to have multiple colleges to be accedited) to learn information that is already known. Which is where I think we have it set up wrong. It shouldn’t cost large sums of money for a person to learn what is already known, the information should be made available for free. The tests universal and unattached to a University name. Were you able to pass the test showing proficiency in A, B and C. Yes or no, that is what we need to know you are proficient in for this job. It doesn’t matter if you went to Alabama, Yale, Community college, online seminars, w.e. Researching knowledge we do not currently possess is what I think the University setup should be pushed back towards.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Are you paying to know those things? I think you’re paying for a piece of paper that said you went there. The number of employers who have hired me for what my Bachelor’s of Science is for: 0. Programmers are probably screwing themselves if they are going to program later in life and using an LLM to write it. But something like 60-90 out of the 120 credit hours for that Bachelor’s degree are not programming courses. If I was in college today I could safely say I would know which courses I needed to pay attention to, and which ones I don’t. Hell I took Archeology of Caribbean Piracy one semester, fun course though.
catloaf@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I went to college to get the degree so I could check that box on job applications, I already knew most of the material.