I had a 3rd grade teacher who had an absolute meltdown because I was handing in homework that was “done on a computer”. This was a long time ago, the space-age super-intelligent computer that was apparently doing all my homework for me was a 12MHz 286 with 1024 kb of memory and a 40 mb hard drive.
Matters escalated to the point where there was a meeting with the principal, then the teacher and the principal, and finally my parents and the principal, where this dumb old woman had to explain why she wouldn’t accept the homework I was actually doing. She eneded up being told “More kids will be doing this every single year, he’s just the first, you need to get over it.”
She thought that the computer was doing everything for me. Which is possible now, but 30 years ago when CD-ROM and 256-color graphics were a cool new thing, not so much.
As someone who uses LLMs at work, i can tell you that they are a tool. You have to learn how to use them and what its limitations are.
A good friend of mine who is a teacher, tells me it is really obvious if one of his students uses AI for their homework. Not much difference as when they would pay one of the smarter kids to do it for them.
Different technology but the same discussion as when ppl where afraid, that Wikipedia will write the kids homework…
Im so glad I grew up with computer savvy parents.
I had a 3rd grade teacher who had an absolute meltdown because I was handing in homework that was “done on a computer”. This was a long time ago, the space-age super-intelligent computer that was apparently doing all my homework for me was a 12MHz 286 with 1024 kb of memory and a 40 mb hard drive.
Matters escalated to the point where there was a meeting with the principal, then the teacher and the principal, and finally my parents and the principal, where this dumb old woman had to explain why she wouldn’t accept the homework I was actually doing. She eneded up being told “More kids will be doing this every single year, he’s just the first, you need to get over it.”
She didn’t like typing or something?
She thought that the computer was doing everything for me. Which is possible now, but 30 years ago when CD-ROM and 256-color graphics were a cool new thing, not so much.
Isn’t possible now.
As someone who uses LLMs at work, i can tell you that they are a tool. You have to learn how to use them and what its limitations are.
A good friend of mine who is a teacher, tells me it is really obvious if one of his students uses AI for their homework. Not much difference as when they would pay one of the smarter kids to do it for them.
Different technology but the same discussion as when ppl where afraid, that Wikipedia will write the kids homework…