I also teach in a university. There are two concepts: teaching with the AI, and teaching against it. At first, I want my students to gain a strong grasp of the basics, so I teach “against” it - warnings for cheating, etc. This semester, I’m also teaching “with” it. Write an algorithm that finds the cheapest way to build roads to every one of a set of cities, given costs for each street segment. I tell them to test it. Test it well. Then analyze its running time. What technique did it pick? What are the problems with this technique? Are there any others? What input would cause it to break? If I assumed (some different condition), would this change the answer?
Students today will be practitioners tomorrow, and those that know how to work with AI will be more effective than those who do not.
Yeah! Computer science students can do more "science" with the LLM. Before they spend all their time just writing and debugging. Instructors are happy if students can just write code that compiles.
When every student can write code that compiles, then you can ask them to write good code. Fast code. Robust code. Measure it, characterize it, compare it.
The people who become truly effective with AI, i.e., the folks who write truly good code with it, make truly beautiful art, spend closer to effectively 10 years of man-hours than 10 mins with it.
Using AI is a skill too. People who use it every day quickly realize how poor they are at using it vs the very skilled when they compare themselves. Ever compared your own quality AI art vs the top rated stuff on Civit.AI? Pretty sure your stuff will be garbage, and the community will agree.
I don't know how that can be true. People were making very beautiful art with SD less than a year after it hit the scene. Sure, I think you need more than 10 minutes, but the time required is closer to that than it is to 10 years.
Will we ever achieve near-light speed travel and catch up to these guys? Or do we first reach the point where we can upload our consciousnesses into machines (bio or silicon) such that speed no longer matters as much?
Off topic a little, but I feel that Heinlein-esque generation ships or frozen embryo payloads carrying biology and all that bio requires are not the future of human expansion. I think it’s long-lived mechs carrying encodings of human neural pathways, with maybe just enough biology to generate randomness. (Could we make hearty fungi function as synapses?)
Reminds me of the sci-fi trope where the first humans are sent off into deep space to reach a new habitable planet. And when they arrive it's already full of cities and life because their original ship was much slower than the high tech ships that came later, beating them by decades to the new planet.
This is part of the story of the new Peter F. Hamilton book "Exodus The Archimedes Engine" [1], which is also the basis for an upcoming game by ex-BioWare developers [2].
I was probably 2 years old and was fussing loudly in the middle of the night, when a kind lady came through a door and walked over to me and hushed me down. She was in a blue ball gown-like dress. The next morning, I remember looking at the part of the room where she came out of, and there was no door there. Years later, my sibs told me that house was haunted af. I’ve spent my life trying to rationalize this experience.
I have vivid nighttime hallucinations. Sometimes it is bugs or spiders (so many spiders), other times dancing teacups emptying themselves onto my face. I remember a time when my alarm clock was a lion that I had to tame. But a few times it was very much what you describe. In one case, a ghostly looking woman looked me directly in the face from not more than an inch away.
Our minds get kind of funny when we are asleep. They manifest strange and incomprehensible imagery. I wouldn’t make too much of it.
(By the way, I have these much more frequently when I am stressed. Perhaps that was a factor for you?)
Drafting was taught in my high school through the late 1980’s, and into college in the second half of the 80’s. However, in 1986, we had CadKey for the IBM PC, which could work with an optional mouse. The students who could afford a mouse had an edge.
Drafting by hand is a lost art. It was fun - annoying when you made a mistake using .5mm HB lead and had to scrub the snot out of the paper to fix it - but something very real to it all
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