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Don’t Abuse ChatGPT, Kids
Or abuse it, I’m not your mom
Man is born curious, and everywhere he is… doing things like this:
Mother nature endowed us with the greatest gift of all but we can’t help being ungrateful. Or is it unwitting? I guess kids don’t read proverbs nowadays. “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” All the basic advice you need to navigate the world of AI was inscribed in some dusty volume millennia ago: “Use your brain.” Or in its more sophisticated form: “Do not not use your brain.” Some people should definitely read this.
Professor Lakshya Jain is obviously talking about ChatGPT. The entire class is over-relying on it. He can’t know for sure — his students won’t tell him — but yet, again, he can. Statistical averages never lie. Well — that’s actually an important point to dig into. They never lie but can mislead. I’ve argued elsewhere that AI acts as a catalyst of character: it will drag the worst students down yet enhance the best ones. I think that natural intellectuals — or, to not be pompous, people who love to learn — will thrive with or without AI. AI will be helpful, not a hindrance, to them; like the internet before and books before that. Lazy students, however — they’re a different story.
