re: New Yorker Article: Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College

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Honestly, it comes up with better questions than his teachers. It also give me an idea if he's ready for his tests or not.

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I know quite a lot of teachers that are using chatgpt for the same purpose. And that's actually a great use for it both ways. You could also upload any notes slides and do the same thing having it make questions from the slides.

I haven't really fiddled with it much yet since I'd already made almost everything I need over the past decade+, but it would be a significant time saver for making new stuff.

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What this country needs is even less people knowing how to write. People are already retarded. Now people will go K-12 through college without ever having to write a paper.

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How often do you write papers now? Do you think you are smarter than kids graduating now? High School seniors today can run laps around you.

While you whine about cursive, they are writing code. While you whine about term papers, they are creating fully edited video productions. When you whine about calculators, they are building robots and drones.

I have kids involved in some pretty cool shite, and I see a lot of really smart kids daily. I know a kid with a satellite (cube sat) in space. What do you have?

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With all due respect, I cheated the frick my way through undergrad and I was gone by 2009.

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AbitaFan08

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This makes a lot of sense

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How often do you write papers now? Do you think you are smarter than kids graduating now? High School seniors today can run laps around you.

While you whine about cursive, they are writing code. While you whine about term papers, they are creating fully edited video productions. When you whine about calculators, they are building robots and drones.

I have kids involved in some pretty cool shite, and I see a lot of really smart kids daily. I know a kid with a satellite (cube sat) in space. What do you have?

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I have the social skills to be able to interact with the public on a daily basis without having a full on meltdown. I can present a case in a case consultation setting without losing my shite if a coworker suggests an intervention I didn't think of. I can sit with a client that is overwhelmed with emotion and not "freak out" over it.

Yes, some of those kids may have a wider depth of knowledge in certain fields but do you know where they're lacking right now? Basic social interactions. Front facing skills in interacting with the public. Emotional intelligence.

I supervise interns, I literally had to sit in with an intern (in a Masters Counseling program) and help them contact different facilites to coordinate wrap around services for a client. It was like pulling teeth. And then they cried because they felt I was "too harsh" on them for making them do it.

There's a trade off with relying on something like AI for everything, including your social interactions, which ALOT of young people do these days.

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Wrote formulas on my thighs a couple of times and wore shorts.


Inside of my calculator cover was always covered with formulas

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You LSU people are so backwards. At Auburn, we programmed the formulas right into the calculators.

And in the process of you writing down those formulas, and me programming them, we learned the damned formulas anyway, which was the goal all along.......

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AI will get most people to hand over their humanity happily and willingly for a life completely devoid of responsibility or struggle.

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Dude, you use AI very differently than how I like to use it.

- it is a far better search tool than google ever was. You can be conversational with it and get great answers from anything you can image. It helped me pick a rod and reel combo for my kid based on where we fish, when we fish, etc.

- I can ground it with my company's brand guide and basic information. I can then ask it to provide things to me formatted in a way that is optimized for the specific need. Something that would take days takes minutes.

- Can ask it conversationally to provide ad hoc analyses such as "how did the margin at xyz retailer look this year compared to last" "can you point out any anomalies in the past few years that can help us to improve"

- I can create presentations and documents using bullet points and key topics instead of spending hours on it.

- it can record presentations at conferences and provide a summary and action items. (life saver)

Just think about it automating crap you could do anyway, but faster. You have the final say. You can edit the copy and check the math, but you don't have to do all the heavy lifting. It's like saying you prefer a hammer over a nailgun just because that's they way it always has been.

There's more to humanity than organizing words on paper. Sorry.

Honestly I don’t see what’s wrong with using the day’s technology to work smarter. We do it in the real world.

It’s like not being allowed to use a calculator in math.

Pathetic. A nation of indolent, dishonest, ignorant dimwits who will be forced to rely on technology to think for them. Perfect puppets, easy to manipulate, lacking any independent judgment.

20 people? 25? And what else besides tests were ever graded?