Raw LLM Responses

John Reeks I have mixed feeling on the impact on education. I have used LLMs to teach myself a lot of new things. It is like having an unreliable teacher that injects random errors in what they teach. And in some tasks it can be prompted in a way it simplifies human cross-checking. At the same time when an undergrad student confesses they have not read anything since chatgpt came out, or when it is obvious that some PhD students are not progressing due to it, the danger is obvious. We need a new pedagogy. Banning and monitoring in various forms will be part of it, but also dedicated technology developed in the university (those that have the money are already doing it), maybe hardware based solutions (like the monitoring laptop I described), and teaching how to use it properly. I have more problems with the ethics of using commercial models. I want the university to have ethical locally installed AI we can use without exploiting workers, damaging climate, and contributing to a political economics system that is abhorrent. I think we can figure out the pedagogy, if the ethics is fixed. But Covid did a number on the tech autonomy of our universities that are now all captured by microsoft or google. So unclear the UK can drive it.