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Is it though? Like is it really? I have not seen a credible study yet and from at least my personal experience and those around me, it seems like it helps people learn better?
Teacher here. It's not that they can't think, its that they don't want the take the time to think and learn.
Nothing new there.
True, but the resistance to think is more than it was ten years ago when I started teaching.
There is something new, actually: ease of access.
Yes, the so-called AI, they even may believe it can think for themselves.
There's different ways to use it. If you use it to cheat, yeah, your ability to think will be destroyed because you aren't learning.
It might be more useful if used to explain concepts, so you can do the actual work yourself. I know there's a lot about math that I didn't really learn in class and had to learn from extra lectures I watched outside class in my personal study time, so if someone used it like that it might help. Personally, I'd be too anxious about hallucinations teaching me bad information. The last thing I'd want is to end up like that guy who thought he was inventing new types of math because his chatbot told him he's a genius.
If someone uses it to cheat and not learn, it is not AIs fault they did not learn?
Fault is irrelevant. The question is if students will hurt their education with AI, and they will. Whether they're hurting themselves or being hurt by an unsafe technology is actually a secondary question that doesn't really matter in this instance.
I do not think it is that black and white. Some students may use AI in ways to skip actually learning and “maybe” AI is making that situation worse, but there are for sure other students that are using AI to learn more than they ever have before. Maybe there is a divide developing with those who use to learn and achieve new heights, and those who use it to skip doing things and learning altogether.
What? I said that chatbots can be useful, such as if you used it to explain concepts like how I used to use supplemental lectures. Hardly black-and-white! The danger surrounds students using it as a shortcut to avoid work and to cheat on assignments, and they absolutely will.
Remember, fault is irrelevant. The assumption you seem to have is that a student that uses a chatbot to sabotage their own education deserves it; we should just let this divide emerge between students that ruin their education with chatbots and students that succeed. Basically a sink or swim/survival of the fittest approach to education.
That's a horrible idea. We can't afford to allow students to ruin their education. The vast vast majority of students merely do what is required to get a passing grade, and if getting a passing grade no longer requires learning or understanding anything then they won't bother. That's really bad for them as students, and for society as a whole.
What you're proposing is the collapse of civilization.
We both seem to be reading the replies wrong as I was not proposing. It is just an observation.