<story><title>AI Homework</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2022/ai-homework/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>soco</author><text>I can imagine somebody knowing the answer being able to properly verify the output. But a student which is supposed to learn something form that homework? We&amp;#x27;re missing the entire point of homework here.</text></item><item><author>fellerts</author><text>There has been a lot of &amp;quot;well, we had a good run&amp;quot; comments on ChatGPT threads from engineers lately. I get where this sentiment is coming from, but I also think that the article paints a good picture of how we must &amp;quot;pivot&amp;quot; as a species to avoid faceplanting completely. Zero Trust Homework sounds like a strategy we will be forced to implement:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    the system will frequently give the wrong answers (and not just on accident — wrong answers will be often pushed out on purpose); the real skill in the homework assignment will be in verifying the answers the system churns out — learning how to be a verifier and an editor, instead of a regurgitator.
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If done well, I believe this can prepare the next generation well for a future we cannot even imagine. The next 10 years will be interesting to say the least.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>HammadB</author><text>I think what’s worth mentioning is that for people who grew up with google, schools already were having a bit of a panic with resources like wolfram alpha and Wikipedia. For this cohort of users, myself included, the idea of fact checking ”found” material and weaving it into a proper answer is very familiar.&lt;p&gt;With this view, I think chatGPT is less of a novel UX shift than an accelerant on an existing one.&lt;p&gt;I think it proves the age old belief that as technology reaches maturity it loses its fancy monikers and we will probably just look at this as “very good, very specific, google” one day</text></comment>
<story><title>AI Homework</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2022/ai-homework/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>soco</author><text>I can imagine somebody knowing the answer being able to properly verify the output. But a student which is supposed to learn something form that homework? We&amp;#x27;re missing the entire point of homework here.</text></item><item><author>fellerts</author><text>There has been a lot of &amp;quot;well, we had a good run&amp;quot; comments on ChatGPT threads from engineers lately. I get where this sentiment is coming from, but I also think that the article paints a good picture of how we must &amp;quot;pivot&amp;quot; as a species to avoid faceplanting completely. Zero Trust Homework sounds like a strategy we will be forced to implement:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    the system will frequently give the wrong answers (and not just on accident — wrong answers will be often pushed out on purpose); the real skill in the homework assignment will be in verifying the answers the system churns out — learning how to be a verifier and an editor, instead of a regurgitator.
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If done well, I believe this can prepare the next generation well for a future we cannot even imagine. The next 10 years will be interesting to say the least.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>314</author><text>Well, they would need to know something about the topic. The easiest way for them to do this would be to read about it. When picking what to read they would need to be able to estimate if it contained valid information. The meta-skills that would be developed would be:&lt;p&gt;* Understanding the quality of sources&lt;p&gt;* Understanding the different between primary and secondary sources.&lt;p&gt;* Establishing chains of evidence and tracing them through large datasets.&lt;p&gt;* Integrating information from different sources and using correlation to establish validity.&lt;p&gt;Basically, it would be a crash course in how to do research, and the best possible preparation for living in a world where we drown in uncertain information and still have to make the best choices that we can.&lt;p&gt;For bonus points, at the end of the process they would have a better understanding of the subject matter than somebody who had only read about it.</text></comment>