A committee of professors and students spent 5 months studying how AI changed learning on campus, and the findings read like a warning to every university on the planet.

⭕ Study groups are disappearing.

⭕ Office hours are emptying out.

⭕ Problem sets and take-home exams no longer prove anything, because AI can produce credible solutions to almost any written assignment in the undergraduate curriculum.

⭕ Students who lean on chatbots lose mastery and confidence, and some slip into what the report calls cognitive surrender, reaching for AI at the first hint of struggle.

The committee warns MIT professors against replacing undergraduate research assistants with AI agents just because they’re cheaper, because a university exists to grow people, not output.

https://aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/

  • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    No, jackass. You put up the straw man. It’s called ‘memorization’ there.

    But I’m not surprised you go around telling other people their arguments are logical wrong, rather than, realize it’s your own that are…

    How are you even typing sentences to me in the English language? Maybe because… you memorized the language, it’s grammar, it’s rules, and you use it every moment of every day of your life? Who taught you that, did it just spontaneously occur, or did you learn it by using google?

    the very fact you can write comments here undermines your own argument that ‘memorization is worthless’. but your own critical thinking is so stunted you don’t even realize that. you’re under the false impression that you can run a marathon without knowing how to walk, and why bought teaching people to walk, because everyone can just drive a car 26.2 miles rather than walk or run!

    You are the reason the education system is so horrid, because everyone thinks like you. And they make arguments to avoid learning the basics rather than… shutting up and doing it. Just like the kids in PE class who would sit out ‘in protest’, who then wondered why it hurt when they ran…

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        14 hours ago

        that isn’t an ad hominem argument.

        you really have no idea how logical fallacies work or where they apply, it’s hilarious. it’s just name-calling to you. a nice way for you to dismiss other people because well, it would take effort for you to actually engage with the argument rather than dismiss it.

        you can prattle on all you want about how memorization is stupid, but I’d like to know you do anything in life on a daily basis without memory. or do you like look up how to do your laundry on your phone every single time you do your laundry because ‘memorization is stupid and i can just look it up each time’.

        you should interact with people who have memory issues. it will blow your mind to see what someone who can’t remember things actually functions, and maybe make you realize how totally dependent you are on memorization of things. very much like how you probably never thinking about walking or other bodily movements, but you would if you became paralyzed.