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bucolic_frolic

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1. There would be no time to do the ordinary reading, thinking, studying, living of student life

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sat Jun 7, 2025, 09:29 PM

Jun 7

This is a really, really bad idea imho. I can't keep up with all of today's AI, webinars, videos, upskills, computing, and I'm not a student.

AI would in my view lead to brain-dead curricula, lack of thinking, poor prep for exams.

Brains need repetition, mental imaging, free-form pursuit. AI is a fail on all of that.

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Welcome to Campus. Here's Your ChatGPT. [View all] highplainsdem Jun 7 OP

There would be no time to do the ordinary reading, thinking, studying, living of student life bucolic_frolic Jun 7 #1

I couldn't agree more! SheltieLover Jun 7 #2

This will destroy education - except for teaching students to use bots and become dependent on them. highplainsdem Jun 7 #4

Why would any school agree to this? SheltieLover Jun 7 #3

Part of it is FOMO - fear of missing out on using AI as fast as the AI companies say you have to highplainsdem Jun 7 #5

I've already personally heard from people that that've lost jobs to ai. SheltieLover Jun 7 #12

there's through the roof risk/reward on this cadoman Jun 7 #10

That's how Zuckerberg made his first million ... FakeNoose Jun 7 #6

The toothpaste isn't going back into the tube. Lucky Luciano Jun 7 #7

We're seeing a con job. They're peddling badly flawed tech. This is not progress. Or toothpaste. highplainsdem Jun 7 #8

Strongly disagree Lucky Luciano Jun 7 #9

What do you use those bots for? highplainsdem Jun 7 #11

Mostly to improve coding or get to the point on some mathematical concepts I want clarity on. Lucky Luciano Jun 7 #13

See reply 14, which I'd started writing before I got a phone call. I didn't see your reply here before I highplainsdem Jun 7 #16

Yes it can give incorrect results or partially correct results. Critical thinking is still required indeed. Lucky Luciano Jun 7 #17

Never mind. I found one of your earlier pro-AI posts. highplainsdem Jun 7 #14

Yup...Google does a decent job of using LLMs for this sort of thing. Lucky Luciano Jun 7 #15

Even before AI, I could feel myself "dumbing down" due to technology JustABozoOnThisBus Jun 8 #20

Regulate. Motherfucking. AI. Karasu Jun 8 #18

reading, writing, reasoning, critical thinking, social skills, memory, learning, creativity -- will become orleans Jun 8 #19