other thought here: feels like college students are making a bet right now that ai will be around / accessible / broadly useful when they’re in the workforce. i genuinely don’t know if that’s a safe bet! hard to say from here imo
this is the whole ballgame imo. the fact that students can feel like their entire future depends on doing well on a paper doesn’t incentivize learning; it incentivizes doing well on the paper. goes double when those futures depend on having a degree
May 7, 2025 14:11could be building their professional house on Google wave
oh my god that's a great point lol
I disagree with that, I don't think people use a tool with the explicit rationale of having it available forever, just that it helps in the present so it's used. I never learned excel because I thought it would help me in 20 years time.
That or their position in the world won't require more than high school level knowledge and the degree requirements are arbitrary.
There are already open source versions you can run at home. Training is still outrageous, so I don't think the current business models will work, but I'm pretty confident *something* will be around for the foreseeable future, esp. for stuff that doesn't need frequent updates (e.g., writing emails)
💯 If AI maxes out right about where it is now we will be living in Idiocracy in 20 years.
