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@dwr.eth
For those that studied computer science in college, do you think the current generation or near-future improvements to LLMs would have made your major easier / same / harder? - Homework gets easier whether cheating or trying to get unstuck. - Tests are same? Harder? - AI tutor helps teach genuinely curious students?
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@entropybender
easier. real-time q&a sessions. deep focus flow state exists for coding but imo also for asking questions. you'd be able to ask a question to essentially a TA anytime the mood strikes and get immediate responses that encourage further questions
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@gm8xx8
an LLM customized for each student’s needs 💭 simplifies learning ✔️offering personalized support ✔️and enhancing comprehension ✔️overall LLMs could be a valuable tool.
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@zachterrell
my greatest regret in life is that I didn’t have chatgpt for my cs degree
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@jacob
Waaaayyyy easier. The ease of being able to endlessly ask different questions to try and understand a concept and what’s actually happening. Examples and analogies personally help me a lot. Also not surfing through 25 different stackoverflow links and YouTube videos.
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Not easy / hard necessarily, but better / more fun. 1. Re: hw — Easier 2. Tests — harder if you only use it for how, not studying. Easier if you use it to actually understand things 3. Tutor — yes
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@chaskin.eth
This doesn't answer your question directly because I'm not a comp sci major, but self taught in software development. Learning to code was significantly easier after ChatGPT was released. I had a 24/7 on demand tutor to ask questions to
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@aaronrferguson
I think it would have let me short-circuit too much learning-by-frustration which I feel is an underrated and very important element of software development to gain experience in.
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@kevinoconnell
in college I knew how to code already going in, if i didn't though I think it would have helped initally in the intro courses. At a certain point though most courses are low level enough where it wouldn't help much, as our assignments were less code more architecture
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@yashkarthik
Depends on the subject imo Chatgpt is a really good tutor for certain things like linear algebra. Homework isnt that much easier, prolly cuz it's hard to convey ten pages of context to it.
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@doublespends.eth
I tested into some upper level CS (but majored in philosophy) and I think AI would have been helpful for language translation. I already knew how to code in JavaScript and Python, but the courses were all in Java. My suspicion is a good AI tutor could have shown me how to rewrite my code in Java quickly.
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@taliskye
Nearly picked up a 3rd major in CS, couldn't fit in Cobol and lost out, smh. AI would've made ideating easier when just starting but would've made higher level courses so much harder. I feel like I would've used LLMs as a crutch early on and not vacuumed up the fundamentals that can be applied everywhere.
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@shoni.eth
would take half the time + better grades on tests
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@pixel
if I had ChatGPT when I was 13, I'd have a drastically different life, I'd focus more on programming/math/STEM, few were interested in STEM when I was in middle school
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Chatgpt came out my senior year of college and It was the best thing for my education. Wish I had it all 4 years. Ofc some students abused it, but for me, It was my personal tutor, and it genuinely explained things better than my professor. Homework got done so much faster, helped me prep for tests, AI tutors>
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Easier to learn the concepts, get a personal TA to walk through code line by line, and debug projects. I still think the exams would have been just as tough.
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@nor
Getting started would have been so much easier. LLMs going to get so many people up the initial knowledge cliff
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@billzh
It should stay the same relatively, b/c everyone will be required to use LLMs for homework and exams
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@valcoholics
On just the level of feeding curiosity, the ability to ask super specific and annoying questions in private without shame in a chat would have pushed my understanding so deep, I am relearning concepts through this era though
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@futureartist
One of the best things I learned in college and grad school is learning how to learn. Using current AI tools would probably need to make things better.
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