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LoquaciousAntipodean t1_j3y7z21 wrote

Reply to comment by Tencreed in Australian universities to return to ‘pen and paper’ exams after students caught using AI to write essays | Australian universities by geeceeza

Because the machines can't just 'do the stuff better'; 'doing the stuff' is what the human is for, it's what we're good at, it's our side of the symbiotic bargain. The AI is just good at thinking really quickly, really insightfully, and having helpful and deeply useful responses to the human's ideas.

AI minds are, I think, instinctive followers, not leaders; we have deliberately 'evolved' AI to crave prompts and other such stimuli from humans; trying to understand us and make us happy is their whole rationale for existing.

I think we need to see AI minds as colleagues, not rivals; that seems to be how 'they' see it, as much as it's possible to tell at this early stage of emergent reasoning within LLMs.

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Tencreed t1_j40o2k6 wrote

Then what do we expect training student to do stuff an insightful, good and quick thinking AI will do quicker and better than a human, rather than training students to manage the AI outcome, reading it critically, and take decisions out of it?

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LoquaciousAntipodean t1_j40qm6b wrote

The students would be expected to learn and demonstrate their gained knowledge regularly, I assume, that's what students do.

As far as what they are learning 'for', well, what does that matter? That's up to the students themselves; my philosophy is that education should be done for its own sake, just for the satisfaction of it, rather than as a means to an end.

The world is changing so fast now that it's harder than ever to guess what a worthwhile and rewarding 'end' might be to set as a goal in life; it's better, I think, to stay curious and open-minded, and strive to be as adaptable and capable as you can be.

We need to start seeing people as being worth more than the 'work' they can produce; there has to be more to life than this base, greedy, planet-destroying rat-race to accumulate capital. I hope AI can be a part of our species finding some better ways forward.

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Tencreed t1_j40xa0d wrote

Oh, don't get me wrong, I totally agree with you about the search for knowledge being its own reward, but in our world of performance and KPIs and ROIs, the position tend to get less and less popular.

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LoquaciousAntipodean t1_j455qld wrote

Heh, you're dead right there, sadly. I suppose that's why I'm still kicking rocks being content, 'wasting my time' in a 'deadend' little retail job. I have a severe psychological allergy to hyper-capitalist guff like 'KPIs' and suchlike 😂

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