Feel like we’ve got a lot of tech savvy people here seems like a good place to ask. Basically as a dumb guy that reads the news it seems like everyone that lost their mind (and savings) on crypto just pivoted to AI. In addition to that you’ve got all these people invested in AI companies running around with flashlights under their chins like “bro this is so scary how good we made this thing”. Seems like bullshit.
I’ve seen people generating bits of programming with it which seems useful but idk man. Coming from CNC I don’t think I’d just send it with some chatgpt code. Is it all hype? Is there something actually useful under there?
As a teacher, I’m having a really rough time with it with my students.
Basically, almost everyone is using it. To a point where if I read a paper that I can tell WASN’T generated by Chat GPT, it’s almost an instant perfect. And that almost never happens (it hasn’t happened once yet this semester and I have about 60 students and we’re currently in the 2nd last week). But I can’t ethically give poor marks for just spitting out a ChatGPT generated report because I can’t prove without a doubt that it is, so instead I just mark it very strictly. My marking time has easily tripled, if not more, and my class averages have absolutely plummeted. I used to worry because before LLMs, my class averages were in the low 90’s, but now they’re in the low 70’s. I hate it.
I’ve tried changing things to make it more difficult for these students to cheat, but my curriculum is heavily regulated and wrapped tightly in red tape which makes it extremely difficult to make any meaningful changes.
The other, extremely frustrating side of it, is I am also in university myself. And this is a really prestigious university that was difficult to get into and keep up with (not like the school I teach at). And even now, at this crazy expensive school full of crazy smart people, I see almost all of my classmates using it to generate their reports. Its utterly depressing.
Just the fact that the students of today, who are literally supposed to be furthering human knowledge, who have the responsibility of generating the knowledge for these tools are instead just using them to regurgitate shit makes me feel like just general advancements will really slow down over the next couple of decades. Unless of course we figure out how to get genuine creativity out of them, which is its own mess.