Really enjoyed the thinking in this piece. The territory has significantly shifted out there and we're all trying to make new maps of it. It's taken us years or even decades to form useful models about other technologies, so it seems foolish to believe what anyone (or any machine, these days) says with a tone of absolute certainty about AI--it's simply too early.
I'm a software engineer by trade and use AI everyday now. Sometimes I think I'm being paid for my skepticism--I am _always_ testing it for quality and accuracy. But I've found ways to get quite a lot of help out of it. It's just not magic: it's constant vigilance. Kind of like you can fall asleep on the power drill. You always have to drive it, and drive it true.
> I’m not against students using A.I. to think. I’m against students using it to avoid thinking.
For me, this was the gem here--it really clarified, at a high level, what "good" means when it comes to how AI is used.
Really enjoyed the thinking in this piece. The territory has significantly shifted out there and we're all trying to make new maps of it. It's taken us years or even decades to form useful models about other technologies, so it seems foolish to believe what anyone (or any machine, these days) says with a tone of absolute certainty about AI--it's simply too early.
I'm a software engineer by trade and use AI everyday now. Sometimes I think I'm being paid for my skepticism--I am _always_ testing it for quality and accuracy. But I've found ways to get quite a lot of help out of it. It's just not magic: it's constant vigilance. Kind of like you can fall asleep on the power drill. You always have to drive it, and drive it true.
> I’m not against students using A.I. to think. I’m against students using it to avoid thinking.
For me, this was the gem here--it really clarified, at a high level, what "good" means when it comes to how AI is used.
The exact same thing happened to me!!! I too love metaphors. Use them all the time.... thanks for bringing this to light, Alex.