Yes, agreed. again though, the question is what jobs will be left in a couple of years for people besides people like you who went and sought out the foundational knowledge to be able to actually check the work the LLMs are going to do. And from my experience it needs a lot of checking.
Re:Teaching with AI
by saint_fiasco on Friday September 01, 2023 @12:52PM
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It's not any different, but in my opinion both are not good.
Someone should teach you how logarithms work before giving you a log table. Someone at some point should show you a trigonometric circle before telling you to press the cos button in the calculator to calculate a cosine.
That said, some"one" could be a GPT chatbot. The problem is that you might not know the right question to ask.
Not knowing logarithms (a) didn't prevent me from successfully using the log tables books and (b) using the log tables books didn't prevent me from developing a better understanding of logarithms. I expect something similar with happen with GPT based education.
I acquired a deeper understanding of logarithms through a bit of reflection and thought.
The math lessons and teachers didn't help illuminate logarithms in any significant way. They simply rattled off the theory of logarithms and moved on to teaching us how to use them. I had to go out of my way to understand it myself.
Is this any different from a GPT giving you a superficial, regurgitated level of knowledge which you then have to deepen through some effort on your part?