As students in generation where LLMs modules are accessible, I think most of us already thought or used AI for academic purposes, but is it a good thing or a bad thing for academics.
As a STEM major the thought of people trying to become doctors using LLMs scares me, the imagination of coming to a doctor’s office who used AI for his education makes me very skeptical. LLMs in academics should be here to help us, not to do work for us, and that’s something that a lot of people don’t see a difference in. There is a huge difference between trying to make AI do your whole work and ask AI to correct your grammar, I think AI can be a very helpful and useful tool to make our college experience easier, but is it really worth it? Paying so much money to be able to get education for your future without actually getting any knowledge and just passing for a degree? Those are questions that students have to ask themselves on their own, for me it is really hard to recognize AI’s work from human’s work especially when LLMs are still improving. I can see why teacher would have a problem with AI being used in their classes, and also why teacher’s would allow it since LLMs will keep improving and there’s not much that we can do about it other than learn how to use them correctly and ethically based on preferences of the teacher.
Coming from this I truly believe that AI can be an awesome tool to help you save some time, and help you with your education as quizzing you, summarizing notes etc.., but not a tool that should be overused, but at the end of the day it is your choice if you’re paying for knowledge or just to be able to say you have a degree.
You brought to light a good point about how students who are the future of our world are using LLMs as a crutch. What do you think about the doctors who use LLMs to help build health plans for their patients?