Ah, the advancing of humanity. A bespoke professor-quality instructor in everyone’s pocket (or local library) available 24/7.
Happy Tuesday!
Ah, the advancing of humanity. A bespoke professor-quality instructor in everyone’s pocket (or local library) available 24/7.
Happy Tuesday!
Professor might be overselling it but lecturer for undergrad and intro graduate courses for sure.
It's better than a professor in some respects. A professor can teach me about parser combinators but they probably can't teach me about a specific parser combinator library.
There's a lot of specificity that AI can give over human instruction however it still suffers from lack of rigor and true understanding. If you follow well-trod paths its better but that negates the benefit.
The future is bright for education though.
I am not really sure how bright the future is.
Sure, for some people it will be insanely good: you can go for as stupid questions as you need without feeling judgement, you can go deeper in specific topics, discuss certain things, skip some easy parts, etc.
But we are talking about averages. In the past we thought that the collective human knowledge available via the Internet will allow everyone to learn. I think it is fair to say that it didn't change much in the grand scheme of things.
> In the past we thought that the collective human knowledge available via the Internet will allow everyone to learn. I think it is fair to say that it didn't change much in the grand scheme of things.
Just an anecdote of course, but for me having access to the internet changed my life. I found a community I couldn't find locally (programming) as I'm from a rural place, and most of my employments since then have, in one way or another, come from people finding me on the internet. I'm surely not the only one who managed to climb the class ladder mostly because of the internet.
Overselling is not the right word exactly. For some questions it will have professor-level understanding, and for other questions it will have worse-than-idiot-level understanding. Hopefully the students are able to identify which :-)
I've found it generally has professor-level understanding in fields that are not your own.
(Joke/criticism intended)
I think this is overselling most professors.