Comment by genghisjahn
6 months ago
Neal Stephenson has a recent post that covers some of this. Also links to teachers talking about many students just putting all their work into chatgpt and turning it in.
https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/emerson-ai-and-the-for...
He links to Reddit, a site where most people are aggressively against AI. So, not necessarily a representative slice of reality.
He links to a post about a teacher’s expertise with students using AI. The fact that it’s on Reddit is irrelevant.
If you're going to champion something that comes from a place of extreme political bias, you could at least acknowledge it.
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I’d like to see a statistically sound source for that claim. Given how many non-nerds there are on Reddit these days, it’s unlikely that there’s any particular strong bias in any direction compared to any similar demographic.
Given recent studies, that does seem to reflect reality. Trust in AI has been waning for 2 years now.
By what relevant metric?
The userbase has grown by an order of magnitude over the past few years. Models have gotten noticeably smarter and see more use across a variety of fields and contexts.
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