GenAI Will Not Make Students Smarter

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Every student could have a personalized tutor with AI.

The concern about students using AI to complete assignments indicates a failure to adapt on the part of schools. Create better assignments and methods of measuring learning.

I wonder if assignments are fixable. It might be that they become AI benchmarks which results in models optimized to solve them...

There is no fixing students who just want results.

In the end in-person examinations is probably the solved solution we have. Either verbal, on paper, or via very locked down computers.

A bit of a clickbait title but interesting read. I guess we are still too early to know how GenAI will make things evolve in realm of human intelligence. My bet is that it will actually enhance it that atrophy it.

If you give the LLM the professor's prompt and turn in what it produces, you won't learn anything. If you write your own essay (perhaps using an LLM to find sources) and then go back and forth with an LLM to improve it, LLMs may help you learn.

My bet is that it will have little, if any, effect. No other technology we've produced so far has resulted in an overall increase in intelligence. I'm hard-pressed to come up with a reason why this one would be any different.

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