AI Marketed To Students: "Hello easy A's!"

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An advertisement promoting AI tools for students, titled "Hello easy A's!", highlights the affordability and effectiveness of AI in academic success. Users share experiences of spending on AI tools like ChatGPT Plus, discovering budget-friendly alternatives that enhance learning without replacing personal effort. Concerns arise among educators regarding the prevalence of AI-generated essays, leading some professors to abandon teaching in favor of research. While AI can assist in writing and understanding complex subjects, responsible usage is emphasized to maintain academic integrity and critical thinking. The discussion reflects a broader debate on the impact of technology on education, urging students to leverage AI as a tool for improvement rather than a shortcut.
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Seen on Facebook. An ad for AI. "hello easy A's!"

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I was speaking to someone recently who is a professor in the social sciences. She has given up teaching and gone back to research only as she was fed up reading AI generated essays.
 
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Our school has an ethics policy in place for it. We can use AI for research but we must check its results.

We can use it to help us write better but not do our writing for us ala Grammarly.

On taking open book tests, we can only rely on our notes and cheatsheets to work out answers. No phones, tablets, or laptops. We are allowed to bring a calculator depending on the type of test.

Someday the calculator may evolve into an LLM device that has been trained in the subject matter by the student or one that can steer the student in the right direction without giving away the answer. Perhaps with a single question to trigger the student’s memory

I’ve read of experiments with LLMs in the elementary grades where the students interact with it but rather than answering their questions it responds with a question. It’s the Socratic method wrapped in modern technology.

When writing a program, we can use it to write the framework but we must complete the assignment with a working and tested piece of code.

Personally, I’ve used it to write processing sketches for code I’m developing. Processing’s easy access to the canvas and mouse and its display looping makes prototyping fun and easy.

Other times, its helped me to understand CUDA code in a C++ program or dense code in other languages.

So we must use AI responsibly and it can improve our knowledge and critical thinking skills.

Throughout history we have developed tools to see farther and farther (telescope…), to see smaller and smaller (microscope…), to compute faster and faster (abacus and sliderule…) and now to research deeper and deeper (web search —> LLM…).

We can either drown in our technology or rise above it to do ever greater things.

The choice is yours.

 
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PeroK said:
I was speaking to someone recently who is a professor in the social sciences. She has given up teaching and gone back to research only as she was fed up reading AI generated essays.
Yes there is something subtly creepy about them. I can't put my finger on what it is. Maybe it's that they all seem to have been written by the same person. It's like Kraft cheese or something.
 
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Klaatu barada nikto!
 
PeroK said:
I was speaking to someone recently who is a professor in the social sciences. She has given up teaching and gone back to research only as she was fed up reading AI generated essays.
She's fortunate to have such an option.
 
robphy said:
She's fortunate to have such an option.
She and her husband are not short of a bob or two!
 
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Seen on Facebook. An ad for AI. "hello easy A's!"

That looks like AI-generated spam.
 
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