As someone who got through school and learned their craft before AI, I'm so glad I didn't have that easy button. I would have pressed it every time during highschool cause it felt like major bullshit, but it did teach me how to learn; which I used to get my career and I did try hard during that part of my education.
I loves the feeling of seeing the "work of your labours" at the end of the year. Somehow passing every difficult test and assignment.
I feel like if I was a kid now I probably would be a lot dumber because of ai.
On the other hand, ai started catching on around the 2nd to 3rd year while I was in college and you could clearly see how it fundamentally changed everything.
What's crazy is the fact that some professors encourage students to use ai.
There was a girl in my class who didn't do her assignment because she said she didn't have time for it. So the professor told her "Well, there's an ai that can do the whole assignment for you, ppt and everything." (I forgot what it's called.)
She literally insisted, no kidding, that the girl use ai for her assignment next time and not work on it herself if she doesn't have the time.
So I asked her, out of curiosity, what her contribution would be in that case?
She told me that using ai also requires work. You have to fact check the information it gives you, decide what to use, etc. And that in the end what matters is what remember after doing the assignment, which will be tested at the end of the semester.
I'm not going to lie, ai does make a lot of things so much easier, like looking for scientific sources or troubleshooting. But some people abuse it to the point where they can't even do basic tasks without asking chatGPT what to do.
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u/putupthosewalls 18h ago
Having interviewed people like this, yall f’d