[Velvet]

You had an education in more than one sense then, OBB. I hope you had a good time - it sounds like you enjoyed it. But you could have still cheated if you wanted to. We did. First year engineering at my university was a culling process. There were classes, including labs, from 9:00 to 5:00 every day. One hour for lunch. Then homework assignments in physics, electricity, chemistry, applied math, drafting etc every day, each subject taking a good 2 hours or more to complete. To be taken up the next day. In order to complete them all you either had to be a genius or “cheat”.

Three or four of us would get together after classes and one would do the physics assignment and we’d copy it with slight differences, one would do the drafting, that was harder to copy etc. This was the only way we could possibly complete all the assigned work in time. And the professors had to know it.

[Velvet]

Nice article in today’s WSJ:

“AI has exposed a decline in higher education that has been under way for decades. Colleges increasingly focus on job training and credentials rather than intellectual growth for its own sake. Choose-your-own curricula, runaway grade inflation, and the popular notion of the four-year party are symptoms of the same problem. Students have no qualms about cheating, because as far as many of them can tell, college isn’t about learning anyway.

Education is meant to liberate us from bias and ignorance. By hindering the development of students’ critical faculties, AI is setting up future generations for the opposite. Technology has its place in higher education, but not at the expense of learning. Real students deserve a real education.”

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by Velvet

Nice article in today’s WSJ:

“AI has exposed a decline in higher education that has been under way for decades. Colleges increasingly focus on job training and credentials rather than intellectual growth for its own sake. Choose-your-own curricula, runaway grade inflation, and the popular notion of the four-year party are symptoms of the same problem. Students have no qualms about cheating, because as far as many of them can tell, college isn’t about learning anyway.

Education is meant to liberate us from bias and ignorance. By hindering the development of students’ critical faculties, AI is setting up future generations for the opposite. Technology has its place in higher education, but not at the expense of learning. Real students deserve a real education.”

Real students would demand a real education.

Do you want someone performing an open-heart surgery on you, if you knew that their degree was courtesy of AI and they really didn't understand anatomy/physiology?

[Rainger99]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

Real students would demand a real education.

Do you want someone performing an open-heart surgery on you, if you knew that their degree was courtesy of AI and they really didn't understand anatomy/physiology?

AI robots are performing surgery today.

AI-powered robots can autonomously tie sutures and knots, a task that requires precision and dexterity, according to The American College of Surgeons.