[monk_e_boy]

We all (students and staff) use it a lot. It'll write lectures, help think up interesting worksheet ideas, help students code, help them think of things to write about, how to structure assignments.

I needed a lecture on regex, ChatGPT wrote it for my in 30 seconds. Then I asked it for some problems for the students to solve and it wrote those too.

It may not be relevant to you, but for some of us it is changing the way we work. That hasn't happened since the dawn of the internet, or social media, or mobile phones.

The next generation are using it, and using it a lot.

[mrguyorama]

A good, as if the profession of teaching needed to be hollowed out even more. Now, instead of a carefully assembled and designed curriculum, students will be fed literal autogenerated nonsense.

If you do something in your area of expertise half-way with AI, someone somewhere WILL try to do it all the way and market replacing your expertise with just more black boxes for cheaper, and the people who pay you who aren't experts in your field, WILL be sold on that offer.

Nobody will listen to you when you talk about how it is problematic or wrong or error prone or anything. Think of how angrily people argue about Tesla's camera based self driving, think of all the bad takes people have about how "it's safer than a real person" despite the lopsided and bad statistics behind that claim. Now instead of arguing this with strangers on the internet about an extremely rare outcome that could theoretically kill a random person, now you are having this exact style of conversation with your boss about how the AI model he is saying will replace you has an entire class of errors that humans aren't familiar with and don't seem to notice very well and will absolutely hurt things, but only rarely, in the future.

Get ready for a future where pretty much everything inexplicably fails 1 out of 50 times and nobody will ever be able to tell you why, they won't be able to fix it, and companies prefer this anyway.

[omnicognate]

If it's anything like my experiences so far, that lecture is likely to be riddled with plausible but incorrect statements. Any chance you could paste it here?

[monk_e_boy]

I know how to code and how regex works (I do teach it after all) so I'm pretty ok with what it wrote.

[bmitc]

I have never had ChaptGPT tell me anything correct, so consider me "wowed" by it that people are using it to write lectures and test knowledge.

[Jensson]

> The next generation are using it, and using it a lot.

So we should expect the Flynn effect to reverse even harder the coming years? The modern classroom is already making kids dumber, this might actually reverse many of the effects of education and put us back very far.

[rocmcd]

> Then I asked it for some problems for the students to solve and it wrote those too.

And your students will use it to solve the problems! In the end no one will learn anything and nothing of value was created. Rinse and repeat.

I guess this is my concern - if everyone starts using LLMs for stuff like this, then what's the point of anything?

[wellanyway]

> It'll write lectures

Because higher education needed more shitty materials for students to parse. Truly a Visionary.

[monetus]

> The next generation are using it, and using it a lot.

Chat.openai.com is how you are using it in class? They haven't licensed it out in some fashion yet have they?