Like the Romans used to drink from lead cups. Something like that.
(it appears that the moderator is removing any replies with which he disagrees. It might be a piefed issue. But all the removed replies are top level and upopular. Stranger coincidences have happened I suppose.)
definitely AI, so many people are dependant on it, and it even shows that it degrades peoples education as well. ruinings peoples future career/layoffs too.
In defense of AI here, it can be very helpful for education when used right.
For example, when I face concepts I cannot comprehend from study books and papers (either because author expected different set of prerequisites or articulated the point poorly), I ask a local LLM to explain them to me in simple terms. They work very well for that. And once I grasped the idea, I can follow the book again.
The problem occurs when user offloads their thinking to an LLM. Not “get me up to speed on that”, but “solve it for me”.
Have you tried asking a teacher instead?
I’m currently pursuing a PhD and working on a level where it’s hard to find an expert, and volumes of new information that don’t allow me to do so for any single minor inquiry.
This is the step at which the “teacher”, be it scientific supervisor or a prof on the subject, might very much not know the answer. LLMs, however, have access to a large corpus of data that allows to untangle this mess in a quick and efficient way.
Any understanding I get from the LLM’s explanation I verify against the academic books I follow and practical runs. Only when I’m certain I grasped it right, I put it into my work. And LLM was indeed very wrong on one occasion, and slightly inconsistent on some more.
Good luck with that. The teacher is the one explaining incomprehensibly in the first place.
Also true. Although for school-grade knowledge, there’s probably a reputable guy on YouTube who will explain your topic in 15 minutes.