“I know we’re all anti-AI here,” a friend texted in the group chat. “We should co-write an article on how AI has no place in education,” a professional acquaintance suggested during a collaboration session.
This was becoming an awkward time to announce my return to AI… specifically, to focus on AI in education. My friends are right. There is a lot that is terrible about AI. Part of why I haven’t written a blog post in the last 5 months is that I feel so discouraged by how over-saturated the internet is now with writing by and about AI. I still spend weeks and sometimes months researching and writing my posts, but fewer and fewer people even see them in a world awash in slop. Execs make claims about AI capabilities that are so overhyped they verge on fraud.
People of all ages are outsourcing their thinking to AI. However, skills atrophy when you stop using them, and reading, writing, and understanding texts are core parts of being human.
Professor friends share how widespread AI use has upended their curricula, with students submitting essays generated by AI, or reading scripts generated by AI for their presentations. Maintainers of open-source code repositories are flooded with low-quality pull requests of AI-generated code.
Source: fast.ai — Read the full article on the original site ↗