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[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 14 points 2 days ago

Computer science is going to be q commodity job. Prediction of three tiers:

  • Tier 1: No education requirement. I write code and build things. Large percentage of developers.
  • Tier 3: Science based, high education working on algorithms, physics, and other elements requiring an understanding of matters in deeper education
  • Tier 2: Right in between 1 and 3, may require formal education, but definitely experience. Will understand applications of high science, and can both program well and manage teams. Will replace current nontechnical middle management, because who needs that when the market is flooded

We've been headed this way for years, AI is just speeding it up.

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 54 points 2 days ago (5 children)

College courses have long been structured to incentivize rote memorization and regurgitation over actual critical thinking and understanding. When i was in college the "honors" students literally had filling cabinets with a decade of old tests for every class in their dormatory. I'll admit llms have probably made it even worse, but the slide of colleges into worthless degree mills has been inexorably progressing for like 40 years at this point.

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[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

make education stupider and less important, put AI assistants in front of everyone, automate as much as possible, and allow the proletariat class to enjoy decreasing levels of control over society

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Why are you borrowing like $3,000 a credit hour to use ChatGPT? Take some fucking humanities courses so you don’t grow up to be like Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk challenging each other to an MMA match. This might be your last chance in life to be surrounded by experts and hot people having discussions.

Being able to use software everyone uses isn’t a marketable skill. Learn some shit. You’re an adult now.

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 days ago

"This might be your last chance in life to be surrounded by experts and hot people having discussions."

The things that really matter.

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[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago

Always have been, as I've seen during my UCLA days of people buying exam answers from previous weekends and paying for papers, etc.. I'm glad I never bothered, mostly because of dignity but what because I was poor (although those correlate). Rich people have plenty of ways to game the system, though.

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I caught my middle schooler googling her math homework problems. I can hardly blame her, I just completed a work training on Measles the same way. I told her I understand the urge, but you have to put in the work in order to earn taking the easy way out because otherwise you won't know when the machines are lying to you. So anyway yeah we're fucked.

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[–] GoobsTaco382@pawb.social 20 points 2 days ago

I seen students put no work into changing the output text from chatgpt. Like, not even trying to hide it. Shm.

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 20 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Lee said he doesn’t know a single student at the school who isn’t using AI to cheat.

How far do you have to be into the AI shit bubble to think everyone is cheating with AI? Some people are always going to cheat, but that's been true since long before AI tools existed. Most people have some level of integrity and desire to actually learn from the classes they're paying thousands to attend.

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[–] RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

it really shows too because hiring people sucks these days nobody knows anything

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