Mate, I think so many people are still sleeping on the latent capability of AI (even as it is now), but I don't mean that in an AI fanboy way.
I currently lecture at a tertiary institution, and pretty much every single student (and most staff) use AI in some way. But the problem is that the vast majority of them use it in an offhand, surface way, which I think is a huge issue at a macro level.
Lecturers use AI to generate content, students use AI to generate assessments, and everyone's acting like the whole process of learning is still genuine, when it feels more like a farce. I ask students questions in class and they don't just give me an answer, they use AI to give me a generic answer, bypassing their brains and critical thinking in the process.
To your point about reasoning, people are ALREADY outsourcing their reasoning to AI models.
So what I've started doing is teaching students how to think and engage whilst using AI. In that, it strikes me as deeply ironic that whilst there's a group of tech boffins teaching AI to better reason, perhaps we need to be even more aware of teaching humans how to better reason as well.
The effect AI had had on education must be massive. It's sad, but I also can't blame them. If I had GPT as a student I'd be using it all the time too (instead of scribbling down my french homework in the library before class lol).
I expect it will only get more extreme. The same way I never use mental maths because I have a phone with me, I can only guess people will not have to reason/think at all when we have super intelligent AIs. Some Idiocracy/Wall-E shit incoming!
Well, the response to the advent of the calculator was that (theoretically) we started teaching better maths. My hope is that with AI having this much of an impact on both writing and reasoning is that perhaps we can evolve to teaching better thinking.
I will fully acknowledge that I might be a tad optimistic but... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Mate, I think so many people are still sleeping on the latent capability of AI (even as it is now), but I don't mean that in an AI fanboy way.
I currently lecture at a tertiary institution, and pretty much every single student (and most staff) use AI in some way. But the problem is that the vast majority of them use it in an offhand, surface way, which I think is a huge issue at a macro level.
Lecturers use AI to generate content, students use AI to generate assessments, and everyone's acting like the whole process of learning is still genuine, when it feels more like a farce. I ask students questions in class and they don't just give me an answer, they use AI to give me a generic answer, bypassing their brains and critical thinking in the process.
To your point about reasoning, people are ALREADY outsourcing their reasoning to AI models.
So what I've started doing is teaching students how to think and engage whilst using AI. In that, it strikes me as deeply ironic that whilst there's a group of tech boffins teaching AI to better reason, perhaps we need to be even more aware of teaching humans how to better reason as well.
The effect AI had had on education must be massive. It's sad, but I also can't blame them. If I had GPT as a student I'd be using it all the time too (instead of scribbling down my french homework in the library before class lol).
I expect it will only get more extreme. The same way I never use mental maths because I have a phone with me, I can only guess people will not have to reason/think at all when we have super intelligent AIs. Some Idiocracy/Wall-E shit incoming!
Well, the response to the advent of the calculator was that (theoretically) we started teaching better maths. My hope is that with AI having this much of an impact on both writing and reasoning is that perhaps we can evolve to teaching better thinking.
I will fully acknowledge that I might be a tad optimistic but... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Would be great, but my guess is Wall-E or paperclip maximiser 🙃