> AI makes me at least 2x more efficient at my job. It seems irrational not to use it
Fair, but there is a corollary here -- the purpose of learning at least in part is to prepare you for the workforce. If that is the case, then one of the things students need to get good at is conversing with LLMs, because they will need to do so to be competitive in the workplace. I find it somewhat analogous to the advent of being able to do research on the internet, which I experienced as an early 90s kid, where everyone was saying "now they won't know how to do research anymore, they won't know the Dewey decimal system, oh no!". Now the last vestiges of physical libraries being a place where you even can conduct up-to-date research on most topics are crumbling, and research _just is_ largely done online in some form or another.
Same thing will likely happen with LLMs, especially as they improve in quality and accuracy over the next decade, and whether we like it or not.
A big one for me was nobody will know how to look up info in a dictionary or encyclopedia. Yep I guess that's true. And nobody would want to now either!
> AI makes me at least 2x more efficient at my job. It seems irrational not to use it
Fair, but there is a corollary here -- the purpose of learning at least in part is to prepare you for the workforce. If that is the case, then one of the things students need to get good at is conversing with LLMs, because they will need to do so to be competitive in the workplace. I find it somewhat analogous to the advent of being able to do research on the internet, which I experienced as an early 90s kid, where everyone was saying "now they won't know how to do research anymore, they won't know the Dewey decimal system, oh no!". Now the last vestiges of physical libraries being a place where you even can conduct up-to-date research on most topics are crumbling, and research _just is_ largely done online in some form or another.
Same thing will likely happen with LLMs, especially as they improve in quality and accuracy over the next decade, and whether we like it or not.