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Brilliant_War4087 t1_j2zmrkw wrote

It's smarter than me in the subjects I'm studying, probably smarter than my professors. I'm going to use it.

Imagine banning tutors because they're sometimes wrong.

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Ortus14 t1_j2zqlye wrote

Imagine banning eyeballs because vision is sometimes wrong.

Or banning the use of legs because sometimes people trip.

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Think_Olive_1000 t1_j310sbm wrote

Isn't the ban partially because they don't want students to miss out on actually doing the work themselves? Using AI is kinda like going to the gym and then getting hal9000 to lift 90% of any weight you're told to pick up.

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VirtualEndlessWill t1_j31p0mw wrote

Why use a smartphone for navigation when you can use a paper map, right?

It’s time that we let go of hindrances and embrace the technology that helps humans. If an AI can write a draft essay about a topic then I would like to use it for saving time. You eventually have to understand the topic and likely learn it by simply reviewing and adjusting the product. It’s much better than crawling through search engines and books for days.

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Think_Olive_1000 t1_j328kga wrote

your ability to use google maps effectively correlates pretty well with how well you understand paper maps. things like logitude, latitude, being able to read the legend, being able to understand what contour lines mean. If we teach students to be lazy and not understand these things then they won't even know how to prompt an ai effectively into doing what they want. Not to mention they'd be left completely helpless in situations where being able to read a map is vital - like if they're abroad and they have no internet access (offline map only, no guidance), which is not uncommon. Ofcourse, you might never encounter that situation if you're a lardy american.

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VirtualEndlessWill t1_j3342do wrote

Actually, I really have no clue about this topic (professional education, the proper training of people into junior experts of a field), so it's hard to bring up any more points. I've never grown up or used ai for studying myself so maybe your point is correct. There's definitely a big risk of using (or abusing) ai because it can promote reliance on ai.

My point would be that this reliance is the way of the future (just like smartphones and apps) and certain people will still try to understand more about this topic and therefore educate themselves, but then that's the idea behind education.

So yeah, maybe the rational consensus is limiting the amount of AI used in education that is designed for developing real expertise, but allowing AI to assist people in everyday life.

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voyaging t1_j30e83p wrote

in what field(s) is it smarter than your professors?

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Think_Olive_1000 t1_j310ojz wrote

None - the only difference is that it is one on one so it feels like that to the user. Education in a lot of places is broken because of class size.

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Brilliant_War4087 t1_j31g1qu wrote

He could be right. It might feel that way due to time management and how long email correspondence takes to answer a questions.

I used it at the end of my college algebra class last semester. It was definitely better than the book/webassign and the supplemental math class I had to go to for the class. I ended up using it to finish a essay on endosymbiotic theory for bio and on my last couple math assignments and the exams. I got over 90% on all of them and I didn't "cheat."

Overall as a tool, it will make my life allot easier. The fact that I won't have to learn a knew platform every semester for math will speed up the learning process in itself.

We'll see, I start class again on Monday. I'll be using it for precalc, chemistry 1 and medical ethics. I predict I'll get straight A's and have more time to self study due to it improving my work flow.

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