Again, I love this! Exactly as I see it. AI does not kill your brain; you do it when you refuse to think. And there is no need to blame it on AI, just look at your smartphone. I was experimenting with AI in teaching, solely for my own purposes, to see what works better. Most of the students thought I was stupid or lazy when I let them use it, and I was curious whether they had learned anything at all. Not much, I have to admit. I did it poorly, but I learned from it. And I have no regrets; learning is a choice. There will always be people who skip it because they don't want to put in the effort. It is not the AI, as you say, it is us, being lazy humans.
I am a like a child who sees the candy she wants on the top shelf where she can't possibly reach, and along comes Ethan Mollick, a clever shelf stocker with a tall ladder. My eyes grow big, surely he will climb that ladder and get that candy for me. But no, he smiles and waves his hand as if to say, go ahead! I will make the climb for the prize, but not without trepidation!
....and I have just reached the candy. In the time since I posted my comment, I have used the AI Tutor prompt in this post to create my first custom GPT designed to help leadership teams "revisit what they've learned, reflect on their strengths, and onboard new members to shared practices." Thank you to the kind man with tall ladder.
Ethan, I very much agree with you. Like you, I now have a rule about writing first, before I ask ChatGPT to chime in. Even when I’m using it in my writing, I give it very specific instructions about what I want from it you’re right – – the biggest danger is that we give in to laziness and outsource our thinking to it.
Again, I love this! Exactly as I see it. AI does not kill your brain; you do it when you refuse to think. And there is no need to blame it on AI, just look at your smartphone. I was experimenting with AI in teaching, solely for my own purposes, to see what works better. Most of the students thought I was stupid or lazy when I let them use it, and I was curious whether they had learned anything at all. Not much, I have to admit. I did it poorly, but I learned from it. And I have no regrets; learning is a choice. There will always be people who skip it because they don't want to put in the effort. It is not the AI, as you say, it is us, being lazy humans.
I am a like a child who sees the candy she wants on the top shelf where she can't possibly reach, and along comes Ethan Mollick, a clever shelf stocker with a tall ladder. My eyes grow big, surely he will climb that ladder and get that candy for me. But no, he smiles and waves his hand as if to say, go ahead! I will make the climb for the prize, but not without trepidation!
....and I have just reached the candy. In the time since I posted my comment, I have used the AI Tutor prompt in this post to create my first custom GPT designed to help leadership teams "revisit what they've learned, reflect on their strengths, and onboard new members to shared practices." Thank you to the kind man with tall ladder.
Ethan, I very much agree with you. Like you, I now have a rule about writing first, before I ask ChatGPT to chime in. Even when I’m using it in my writing, I give it very specific instructions about what I want from it you’re right – – the biggest danger is that we give in to laziness and outsource our thinking to it.