How about LLM do away with the pointless painful and thankless brute forcing of huge databases of physical paper to find the key piece of information you want to check something against. Teaching that, that is what academic study is leads to the misconception that writing enough about something makes it valid. A serious problem in many of the areas of new academic prostration.
I'd say this opens research to a new audience who otherwise wouldn't go near it, but frankly we see what damage the internet did to society after people said this in the 90s so yes maybe put it back in the box...
Isn't ignoring the incredible good the Internet has done exactly what you're advocating against with regards to LLMs?
Yes, new technology that impacts fundamental aspects of our society will have negative side effects that we will have to adapt to and solve - but on the whole, I think the Internet has produced far more good in the world than otherwise. We'll see how LLMs pan out, but I suspect it'll play out similarly.
> Deep learning has historical and epistemological connections to eugenics through its mathematics, its metrics and through concepts like AGI, and we shouldn't be surprised if and when it gets applied in education to weed out 'useless learners'.
It might be partially correct but this is similar to saying Germans should not be trusted because of WWII.
(sad face) this post subtracts from the valid arguments against the usage of AI tools in some valid scenarios, it is because some folks have a knee jerk reaction and label authors as Luddites
Frankly an LLM would have done a better job and been more succinct.
rob_c•13m ago
This is like saying mathematics should avoid the calculator.
Don't be so naive, the only AI models have are able to perform more powerful contextual lookups and reference and on the case of chat bots hallucinate when this fails.
These tools have no agency, people who blindly trust it beyond this are the highest of fools and don't understand garbage in garbage out.
The role of a university is to train in the use of tools and that includes the squishy one used for critical thinking. If the university wasn't doing that before now it wasn't doing its job.
None of this pseudo intellectualism and politico opinion posting.