posted by Laley23
Higher edeuction can maybe do this. I am more worried about our 5th-10th graders advancing through school without actual knowledge of the basics for math and science and english.
I don't know about math so much (people have been leaning on calculators for years), but I think it will definitely cause issues with students not developing the ability to put their own coherent thoughts down on paper. There's already plenty of people who can't do that and AI might exacerbate the problem.
I was discussing a similar phenomenon with a colleague a few months
ago. Most technology, specifically computers, got a lot "simpler" over
the past 15 years and we have subsequently produced a generation of youth that weren't
encouraged to fix things when they're broken. As such, people ~25-26 or younger have very poor troubleshooting skills which is a necessity in pretty much any technological field. Even those who progress through
college and get a degree in computer science or whatever are bad at it.
I think the same thing could happen with AI if people lean upon it too heavily for various tasks
If you remove natural development/practice in that area and kids just lean on a machine to do it for them, it'll never stick... and you might produce a generation of people who are absolutely terrible at authoring content that requires a certain level of finesse.
The resume that Automatik mentioned is a good example. If you don't have a proper foundation for a resume in the first place, AI probably isn't going to be able to help a whole lot. That requires a fair amount of personalization and uniqueness in order for it to be relevant. AI tends to spit out generic content.
