AI & Education
AI as a tool
This comment gets to the heart of my position when someone asks me about AI being “bad:”
AI goes bad because it’s not smart, and it will pretend that it is. Figure out the things it does well for your scenario and exploit it.
Hacker News comment on I avoid using LLMs as a publisher and writer
If the most experienced AI pair programmer in the world has been doing this for at most two years then we’re all beginners. Forever beginners, probably, the way things are accelerating.
Nobody Knows How To Build With AI Yet
This article is spot on. I had stumbled upon Kidlin’s Law—“If you can write down the problem clearly, you’re halfway to solving it”.
This is a powerful guiding principle in today’s AI-driven world. As natural language becomes our primary interface with technology, clearly articulating challenges not only enhances our communication but also maximizes the potential of AI.
Source: Hacker News comment on Nobody Knows How To Build With AI Yet
AI in education currently
From AI and Education; A Discussion From Experience:
The writing of these beleaguered educators, however, reveals more than just their disdain for LLM tools like ChatGPT. They liken LLMs to giving students an answer key. But an answer key is only useful in lieu of memorization. They lament the ease with which LLMs enable cheating, but cheating was already on the rise. They write about their seeming impotence in the face of overworked or grade oriented students. They are correct on all counts. But a savvy reader may have already noticed that these problems are not caused by LLMs. They predate them. This mirrors my own experience as a teacher: LLMs worsened existing problems rather than created new ones.