cross-postowane z: https://szmer.info/post/13401504

O tym, że AI może wyprodukować lukę pokoleniową w akademii, dzieląc nas na tych, którzy potrafią jeszcze zweryfikować dane wypluwane przez LLMy, i na tych, których nie będzie to już obchodzić, bo akademicki system i tak będzie premiował ich zdolność do szybkiej i częstej publikacji.

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The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you’re doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can’t produce understanding. Who know what buttons to press but not why those buttons exist. Who can get a paper through peer review but can’t sit in a room with a colleague and explain, from the ground up, why the third term in their expansion has the sign that it does.

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Every physics textbook ever written comes with exercises at the end of each chapter, and every physics professor who has ever stood in front of a lecture hall has said the same thing: you cannot learn physics by watching someone else do it. You have to pick up the pencil. You have to attempt the problem. You have to get it wrong, sit with the wrongness, and figure out where your reasoning broke. Reading the solution manual and nodding along feels like understanding. It is not understanding.