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I didn't even think about it until you mentioned it, but I've had several college assignments where I'm tasked with asking an LLM a question regarding the course, and then I have to write about what I learned from it. I still have to find sources supporting or refuting the output, so we're not expected to take the output as truth at least. And these aren't CompSci courses either. It's common core cultural intelligence stuff.
When they talk about AI taking over the world, it's always about taking over the Internet and connected industrial machines. No one told me that AI was going to take over the collective consciousness first.
That's so weirdly almost self aware. You must use AI but also can't trust it an inch.
That is 100% why you're seeing those assignments. Everybody within most universities structures as far as I can tell is 100% bought in to artificial intelligence in virtually every discipline.
Expect it to get worse. And in strange ways. The educational literature indicates that we have zero idea how to actually use these things without diminishing our own cognitive abilities. The system's largely can't be trusted, look at grock the Nazi, or the other systems that are looking to now put ads into conversation.
It's a big f****** mess. I'm not having any of it in my classes right now. But I also don't really see the need for them. I need to train my students in base principles, not in the art of asking questions.