The elephant in the room is that many students are using ChatGPT to write their papers. Since they will use similar tools at work to create presentations, I'm wonder how much colleges should try to police use of ChatGPT by students.
A large fraction (often 70%) of responses will be identical in structure and content, if not verbatim copies of each other. These are the people who have used ChatGPT. These are the people who tend to do very poorly on closed-laptop examinations.
Students have a choice of how much of their critical thinking they choose to offload to the computer, and how much they develop their own critical thinking skills.
Robust assessments in classes still paint an accurate picture of students' capabilities. Designing those assessments requires work for instructors. Pour one out for the lazy.
I suspect that in the coming years, industries will reward those who are capable of adding value beyond naïve parroting of LLM output. Pour one out for the lazy.
The only time in my life I've been unable to complete something mathematically, I was trying to compute accumulation of ROI for a shared money pool for crypto trading - I'm not even saying that correctly.
I couldn't enter the formula for the math I needed I to Google as I did not kno how to, have not owned a TI- anything calculator since highschool and completely forgot even the name for the genre of math that I was doing.
I kno that Google could do exactly what I needed tho and that was frustrating having to look literally every step of it all up
I think AI could have eliminated all of this.
Like my Dad uses multiple apps to get the information he wants for all the sports games that happen during the week, and no app is perfect. If he could prompt something to make a UI with the relevant info he wants displayed like he wants, he would be so much happier. It's little things like that that will make software way more customized and useful for people.
I think there's a lot of hype on AGI and they'll be more, but just as another tool in the programmer's toolbox, LLMs will allow better product to be developed (if people learn how to prompt and think with LLMs in mind vs dismissing all of it when they see a mistake)..
Alternative systems (which have existed before LLMs) include at-home work being required to earn a seat at the exam, but marked for feedback only, with the exam being the assessment graded for credit.
You can do both. My son's using the chatbots as idea/synonym/high-level structure generators and general tidier-uppers. I'd be surprised if he's taking more than 10% of their suggestions verbatim, but it's great for rubber ducking.
Ripe for being gamed but is probably the only way to do PoW without becoming wildly intrusive with personal devices.
measuring proof of work
But there's nothing to stop you from using another AI system to interact with Khanmigo.