ChatGPT has already infiltrated the university, and that is worrying: "Since using it, I think less for myself"

ChatGPT is already in the classrooms. And students of all ages use it en masse, whether parents and teachers like it or not. Generative AI can be useful as a support tool, but most students use it to avoid studying, to do homework and work and, even more serious: to avoid thinking.

I have a university relative who has confessed to me on occasion that he has used ChatGPT to create code without having any idea about programming, even though Your profession requires knowing how to program.

Younger acquaintances as young as 13 or 14 use artificial intelligence to create summaries of the books they have to read in class, thus avoiding reading them. Or to solve math equations without knowing how to do them.

When AI prevents young people from thinking on their own

Whether parents and teachers like it or not, because students do it secretly, ChatGPT and equivalents are being used to avoid studying, and to avoid learning. This is bad enough in itself, but AI has an even worse effect. It is also being used to avoid thinking.

The middle The Country has interviewed to several university students who use ChatGPT, and they themselves admit it: “Since I’ve used it, I think less for myself and I put in much less effort. I have anything to do and I’m going to ask ChatGPT, I don’t even try to understand it.” “, acknowledges Sofía, a journalism student.

Other students use ChatGPT to find sourcesdespite the fact that it is a task that generative artificial intelligence is not very good at, because it tends to invent these sources. But these students claim that it is better than Wikipedia.

Jorge, another journalism student, confesses that “I use it for the fear of the first blank paragraph, it helps you, it gives you a support point to start spinning your ideas on your own.”

The problem is that what Jorge and the rest of the students see as help is actually a serious brake on their own training.

If a journalist doesn’t know how to face a blank page… Is he really a journalist, or a slave to a robot that has to give him ideas to write? The same applies when it comes to knowing how to research sources on your own, or practically any other research task. training.

If we take away AI from all these students who will later be journalists, researchers, architects or doctors when they occupy a job… Will they be able to carry out their profession without getting blocked or making serious mistakes that endanger human lives??

The generative artificial intelligence It is useful as a support tool, to avoid tedious or repetitive tasks that exist when learning. But if you use it to avoid learning, or to avoid doing homework, or a job, then you become her slave, because you will no longer be able to live without her. And that is very serious when we talk about learning a profession.

It is a strategy perfectly designed by big technology companies, to create an AI dependency. Now it is free, but soon you will have to pay a subscription that will increase in price every few months. It is the same strategy used by Netflix and company.

The solution is not to ban it in institutes or universities. Students have easy access to AI on their mobile or PC, so they will continue using it to work less, to not think for themselves.

Perhaps the most logical solution is the one proposed by Pedro Alonso, professor of Information Business: educate students to use AI as a reinforcementa support tool, and not to avoid studying or thinking.

The education and culture is the solution to almost all the ills that plague us, that is a great truth. The problem is that it is rarely applied. And that’s why we live in the world we live in.

The reality is that ChatGPT is now in colleges and universities, and it’s here to stay. There is still no consensus between teachers and institutions on how to deal with this powerful educational tool. But that consensus cannot be delayed any longer, for the good of the students themselves.

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