By Yuri Andrei Morrison | September 3, 2024
By Yuri Andrei Morrison | September 3, 2024
HEY ChatGPT, please write this article for me.
Alright, here you go.
Is AI… the drama?
With so many discussions going around as to whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) is truly serving its purpose, another question that has arisen is whether AI has started hindering the growth of individuals. AI’s original purpose is to ease people's lives; with standards set by cult classic fiction such as Jarvis, the AI powering Tony Stark’s iron suit, AI is striving to make more of an impact in the daily lives of humans. This causes people to develop less fundamental skills and focus more on niches. Humanity is starting to lose its well-roundedness.
Localizing perspectives, AI in the academe should objectively only be used to assist in the procurement phase of information, not in the data processing and analysis. Therein lies the problem with the unrestricted use of AI and its misuse. In having AI as powerful as the current state of language models, the users are in the reign of their actions. The students who misuse AI abuse its capabilities, developing a dependency on it and causing harm to the learning process altogether. It was only supposed to be an assistant, not a safety net.
Should we be concerned? NO!
Hot take, but the current misuse of AI is actually an opportunity. The heavy dependence students have developed has shown the flaws in our current education system. The essays and speeches these language models can easily materialize out of tons and tons of information at their disposal could always get ahead of the students’ output. How is that an opportunity?
Maybe it’s time to rethink how we gauge a student’s learning. Brain dump essays and abyssal reflection papers have lost the essence of being measurements of learning. Students only see these as tasks to finish, and no longer see them as climaxes of learning. These repetitive tasks have taken on and brandished an era of learning that decontextualized the learned lessons, especially at the tertiary level. Oral activities have always been a challenge for those who have stayed comfortable behind screens, typing words; maybe it is there where we will find a new niche in educational avenues.
What I can do that AI can’t… for now.
The one thing you have against AI isn’t your wit nor your greatness, but your humanity. AI will never be able to sympathize with the soul that resides within, nor care for a community that has fostered it. Above all, AI cannot love. AI will fill positions unimaginable to you, but at the end of every single day, it is love that makes the world go round.
AI will never have a reason to write without any human instruction. It may soon understand the trends, but it will never set them. It will never know what data to gather without a question. All of these are, for the time being, limited to human capabilities.
It is our love as writers that keep us at THE BEDAN HERALD, writing these articles. It is our passion to speak up on matters that matter that keeps us standing strong even through difficult times. It is our imperfection that keeps us thirsty for knowledge, seeking more well past what AI could ever bring. These qualities are what make humans better than AI. While they may not make us write better papers, our indomitable will pushes us further.
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