Summoning my #AI folks and my #Education folks to weigh in: What should the attitude of teachers and educators be towards the use of AI by themselves and by students? (Yes, you can assume this mainly concerns the use of #LLMs.) #SALAMI@edutooters
@FantasticalEconomics@edutooters Besides the potential for plagiarism, would you still encourage students to use LLMs given their exorbitant energy usage (which is said to be on par with that of small countries')?
@lewriley@mensrea@FantasticalEconomics@edutooters That's why I wouldn't use LLMs to teach writing (not that I teach writing). I feel like LLMs would be good to teach critical thinking skills: generate a text and call on students to examine it for errors or bias. Still, the reckless waste of resources they entail makes me not want to use them even for that 😕
@FantasticalEconomics@languageservicesco@dsmith@edutooters I can't help but feel some cognitive dissonance here though. If we can reject the use of #LLMs for their exorbitant use of resources and attendant environmental effects, then how does it make sense to encourage students (who are much more numerous than we are) to use them? :thonking:
