In an online discussion post, Alcorn State University history professor Dr. Jason Gibson posed a question that represented part of his students' midterm. It was about the...

In an online discussion post, Alcorn State University history professor Dr. Jason Gibson posed a question that represented part of his students’ midterm. It was about the…

  • balsoft@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    But also the problem is that they cheat.

    Using AI is easy, as you note. You don’t need to go to college to learn to do that.

    College can give you many useful skills, mostly related to gathering and processing information, and applying it to solve various issues. If you just copy-paste every question into AI and then copy-paste the answer back, you will learn absolutely nothing.

    LLMs hallucinate and there’s nothing we can do to stop them. No amount of QA will fix that fundamental issue of “the LLM is somewhat likely to confidently produce incorrect information”, if you need the answer to be correct you have to do the research yourself, maybe based on the sources the LLM provided, not just sanity-check the output. This is a very useful skill to have for many jobs involving thinking or finding stuff out.

    And even if we fix the hallucinations at some point by switching to a different tech (LOL), I do think it’s useful for people to keep some mental skills. Otherwise we will end up with a stupidity and/or dementia epidemics, similar to cars causing an obesity epidemic.

    • Kaligalis@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      They should have learnt to do proper QA before they get to college. That is the actual problem to be solved.

      • Tehdastehdas@piefed.socialEnglish
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        2 months ago

        https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0091743514002023

        Driving towards obesity: A systematized literature review on the association between motor vehicle travel time and distance and weight status in adults

        Highlights

        • Over-reliance on private motor vehicles has likely contributed to the obesity epidemic.
        • Evidence for a positive association between motor vehicle driving and weight status exists.
        • Small, widespread, reductions in driving could provide significant population health benefits.
        • Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          You’d have to be driving for 6 hours or more daily for it to make a significant impact :

          By substituting sitting with standing for 6 hours/day, a 65 kg person will expend an additional 54 kcal/day. Assuming no increase in energy intake, this difference in energy expenditure would be translated into the energy content of about 2.5 kg of body fat mass in 1 year.

          Source : https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29385357/