The students are letting AI do their work for them.
Two and a half years later, students at large state schools, the Ivies, liberal-arts schools in New England, universities abroad, professional schools, and community colleges are relying on AI to ease their way through every facet of their education. Generative-AI chatbots — ChatGPT but also Google’s Gemini, Anthropic’s Claude, Microsoft’s Copilot, and others — take their notes during class, devise their study guides and practice tests, summarize novels and textbooks, and brainstorm, outline, and draft their essays. STEM students are using AI to automate their research and data analyses and to sail through dense coding and debugging assignments. “College is just how well I can use ChatGPT at this point,” a student in Utah recently captioned a video of herself copy-and-pasting a chapter from her Genocide and Mass Atrocity textbook into ChatGPT.
The 'professors' are letting AI mark their work for them.
It’s not just the students: Multiple AI platforms now offer tools to leave AI-generated feedback on students’ essays. Which raises the possibility that AIs are now evaluating AI-generated papers, reducing the entire academic exercise to a conversation between two robots — or maybe even just one.
The end result is people becoming even more stupid:
The so-called Flynn effect refers to the consistent rise in IQ scores from generation to generation going back to at least the 1930s. That rise started to slow, and in some cases reverse, around 2006. “The greatest worry in these times of generative AI is not that it may compromise human creativity or intelligence,” Robert Sternberg, a psychology professor at Cornell University, told The Guardian, “but that it already has.”
Imagine Maxine Waters, multiplied with Cory Booker and Sandy Cortez. And then add Miss Ratchet and Dylan Mulvaney.
People are becoming more stupid as a result of changing demographics.
These tools are amazing and have the potential to increase productivity immensely. But if the only result of that productivity is more gibs for the undeserving then we're going to get more of what is subsidized.
Alcohol, tobacco, and refined sugar all were amazingly bad for the human race, too, and yet drove forward societal developments and significant advancements.
The students are letting AI do their work for them.
The 'professors' are letting AI mark their work for them.
The end result is people becoming even more stupid:
Imagine Maxine Waters, multiplied with Cory Booker and Sandy Cortez. And then add Miss Ratchet and Dylan Mulvaney.
It's the end of the world as we know it!
People are becoming more stupid as a result of changing demographics.
These tools are amazing and have the potential to increase productivity immensely. But if the only result of that productivity is more gibs for the undeserving then we're going to get more of what is subsidized.
"These tools are amazing"ly bad for the human race
Alcohol, tobacco, and refined sugar all were amazingly bad for the human race, too, and yet drove forward societal developments and significant advancements.
As a side-effect, maybe, not for any good that they themselves did.
So was the spear.