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  • theBATCLAM@piefed.socialEnglish
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    7 months ago

    It’s absolutely terrifying. I am a returning student to uni in my thirties and the only person not using any AI. They literally depend on it.

    I just had a classmate the other day turn to me, frustrated, saying “You ever ask chat(gpt) a question and it gives you a whole, like, paragraph you then have to read? like, why can’t it simplify it?”

    Did I mention I am an electrical/computer engineering double major? So yeah, even reading is too much for these kids. Future workforce is fucking cooked.

      • theBATCLAM@piefed.socialEnglish
        0·
        7 months ago

        It’s honestly disheartening. I understand our education system is not well in that tests aren’t actually very condusive to learning, but they treat the idea of learning a skill like it’s some obnoxious chore they just want over with so they never have to do it again when its like… bruh civilization/tech grows exponentially, y’all gotta learn your whole lives and it should be something you ENJOY it should give you pride to be good at something or understand a subject thoroughly.

        i don’t even know what to begin doing about this problem but even if you pretend the environmental impacts are fine/manageable, I can’t help but think this shits gotta be destroyed for the future of humanity.

        • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
          01·
          7 months ago

          learning isn’t fun for the vast majority of people, it’s painful and miserable. they want to avoid it as much as possible.

  • OctopusNemeses@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    No shit. LLMs are the anti-thesis of education. The basis of which is hands on practice. Using a glorified autocomplete-my-assignments should be barred from education without exception.

    This is the tip of the iceberg. The world is facing a critical collapse of profession. We’re nearing a point that was foretold ins sci-fi where humans no longer understand how the machine works.Just that they can use it and it works.

    Except sci-fi was too optimistic. Science fiction has actual AGI. We have glorified autocomplete. A non-intelligence.

    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      01·
      7 months ago

      it’s the equivalent of trying become a marathon running while you sit on your ass on the couch and and flying FPV drone for your ‘training’ and saying it’s the same thing.

      • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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        7 months ago

        democracies are stabilized through the workforce: people work and gain power that way. it’s not possible to shit on workers if they’re needed. if there’s ever a mass unemployment, that’s when you can expect democracy to crumble. i believe it has surprisingly little to do with schooling, actually.

        • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          7 months ago

          I cannot imagine being comfortable with a democracy of dumbasses.

          Isn’t the whole reason we know global warming is a problem because of academics?

          Mandatory education. It is your moral obligation to not be stupid.