'I have an A because I use Chat': What UC students say about using AI -- and whether it's cheating (SF Chronicle)

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3. A fundamental misunderstanding and misrepresentation of "education" is at the heart of this all...

Education is a process, an experience, a way of training mind and body to new things that it cannot or has not previously been able to do. The goal of a college degree is not grades or GPA or the easy way to 'finish' an assignment without investing time into it - the true currency of education is TIME. Spending time - through reading, thinking, practicing, experiencing and DOING THINGS - are the cornerstones of education.

If the only reason one attends college is to get a piece of paper that declares them learned in a subject, then that is a waste of time and money and ultimately useless for self-improvement, skills-attainment or becoming actual experts in a given field. People USED to know this inherently and respected the experts for the time and effort it took to attain such status and standing. Not any more...

Now, the GOP and its race to the bottom - from Reagan to Bush I to Bush II to Palin to Fox News to Trump - has successfully fooled people into doubting expertise, denigrating effort and practice required to become a real expert and set fire to the whole world at the same time.

If you use AI instead of train your mind, you have failed at education and university and denigrated yourself as an opportunistic whore. Your soul's price was easily obtained, bought and paid for. Only those who truly understand the purpose of education can actually benefit themselves AND society with the fruits of such labor. Believing that AI or anything else external to the mind and self will "do it for us" and "make life easier" does not understand the first thing about why such thinking is a prison and that they are voluntarily locking themselves into it.