My thoughts on University in the AI Era: University in the AI Era
Commentary
- Carson Gross Blog: University in the AI Era
- This is very grounded and honest take on AI. I have hardly seen a professor express and address the concerns about AI. Really appreciated effort.
- This statement that University are in a great position to distance from AI with the physical interaction making it harder to AI access is good, but not sure till when that might hold true. If robotics sees a boom like text based LLMs we are not months away from creating a mess.
- The increasing of ambitious homework is the right and exciting move. I want to see myself how would I put effort to get to the goal. Its right that professors accept students will use AI and they intentionally increase the level of things they can produce.
- Homework is no longer a signal that builds on the above point. I like that, because I could see myself skimming over the homework to do something more interesting maybe? As I always have been to do programming.
- Visualizations are cheap. This is a underrated feature of AI, people are not trained enough to produce good quality visualizations. Maybe its moving too fast but there should be some ground where people are trained to create these helpful visualizations of things they want to learn to form a deeper understanding of a concept.
- I just love the take that hand coding is still a valiant thing and thought-after thing. Yes, it looks obsolete right now. AI agents can produce 40K lines of code in a day or more. But the human behind it needs to understand the value of those lines before judging the quality of it. Coding and programming are still valuable and not obsolete. Just that you need some edge in other domain to get the most leverage out of it. Now just knowing how to invert a bnary tree is not helping anyone, people need to understand the problem, the domain in order to apply and solve problems first.