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College professor here. The way I see it, AI is inevitable and it's here to stay. Fighting against AI would be like trying to fight against pocket calculators in the 70s. It's coming whether we like it or not, in class and in the real world; so we need to focus on adjusting the curriculums to work with it, rather than against it.
Right now, a lot of course curriculums are predominantly regurgitation based learning: I'll tell you X, you tell me X but in 3 months. But AI trivializes that way of thinking. If I want to, I can get ChatGPT to generate an entire essay on the impact of ink drying speeds to the colour of grass. Whatever I want, it takes it 10s to write. However, LLMs still struggle with critical thinking, nuances, and originality; which I think is the more important aspect of education.
so in a way, ai makes lazy teaching methods more clearly useless since you can just generate essays
Since this is your area, I'm very curious -- how do you design a curriculum to teach critical thinking, nuances, and originality?
Is it like asking for an original take on your literature piece?
Is it like being given someone else's essay and having to write what you think about it?
Teaching critical thinking?
Every LLM has a Silver lining?
Teaching critical thinking?
Every LLM has a Silver lining?