Does you student crigg by e at the idea they would use AI to write their essays - or more generally do their work?

[Anonymous]

My kids recoil at the idea of using AI.

The college student focuses on the impact on the environment and the laziness of students that use it and my high school senior just thinks what it produces is so pedestrian and unoriginal.

I too worry about the job market in the future but I find their aversion interesting. Is that the common sentiment among young people?

[Anonymous]

Apologies for typo in title, I meant cringe.

[Anonymous]

My HS senior refuses to use it.

[Anonymous]

My kids know what it's good for and what it is not.

My college student writes his papers without it.

My high schooler is in a "No AI" AP Lang class. They have to write things by hand a lot. He uses AI to study math and chemistry. Particularly to drill for tests. He finds that effective.

I have office software AI at work. So far it hasn't saved me much time.

I recently saw an analysis that said AI is excellent at quickly producing stuff that used to waste a lot of time and doesn't matter a whole lot. Like performance review comments. I agree.

[Anonymous]

It’s all about the paid version of AI and the prompt engineering.

You have to spend hours and hours refining the prompt to get the highest quality (exemplar) output.

How much time it saves is debatable at that point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids recoil at the idea of using AI.

The college student focuses on the impact on the environment and the laziness of students that use it and my high school senior just thinks what it produces is so pedestrian and unoriginal.

I too worry about the job market in the future but I find their aversion interesting. Is that the common sentiment among young people?

My child also has an instinctive revulsion for it. So your kids aren’t alone. But DC thinks most of their classmates are using it.

[Anonymous]

My college kid had a machine learning course in high school. They can run circles around me in both explaining how AI “works” and the ethical implications of its use. They understand that it has some practical uses but are adamantly opposed to its use as a substitute for human creativity or as a shortcut to completing academic assignments as opposed to actually learning the material.

[Anonymous]

My kid created the best study guide for biology. Then memorized it over 3 days.
Did well on test.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids know what it's good for and what it is not.

My college student writes his papers without it.

My high schooler is in a "No AI" AP Lang class. They have to write things by hand a lot. He uses AI to study math and chemistry. Particularly to drill for tests. He finds that effective.

I have office software AI at work. So far it hasn't saved me much time.

I recently saw an analysis that said AI is excellent at quickly producing stuff that used to waste a lot of time and doesn't matter a whole lot. Like performance review comments. I agree.

Your job as a manager is care enough to put time and consideration into your employees' reviews. Come on. Be better or stop being a manager.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids know what it's good for and what it is not.

My college student writes his papers without it.

My high schooler is in a "No AI" AP Lang class. They have to write things by hand a lot. He uses AI to study math and chemistry. Particularly to drill for tests. He finds that effective.

I have office software AI at work. So far it hasn't saved me much time.

I recently saw an analysis that said AI is excellent at quickly producing stuff that used to waste a lot of time and doesn't matter a whole lot. Like performance review comments. I agree.

Your job as a manager is care enough to put time and consideration into your employees' reviews. Come on. Be better or stop being a manager.

A good manager guides an employee all year long, not once a year in a CYA performance review.

[Anonymous]

AI is an excellent tool for brainstorming. The advantage of an AI tool is that it can instantly generate millions of ideas for brainstorming, and that is powerful.

For next generation of human kind, they will be greatly disadvantaged if they don't use, or dont' know how to use, this powerful tool in their daily lives, including daily study.

It's analogous to how computer-aided design replaces the human drafter. CAD can easily prepare thousand or millions of designs for engineers so they focus on what matters.

[Anonymous]

Anyone who doesn’t embrace AI is going to struggle in the workplace. I’m an attorney and I’ve received this mandate.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-work-use-performance-reviews-1e8975df?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqcTmWiNXUZUS1Mq3uZ2-gOEIfdS94oen-aJKbPLacpivSH-zeBnnhzeudIfbhg%3D&gaa_ts=690fef85&gaa_sig=0Ci4CtOKWBNfocLeaKD7YHKPDcFLwcjfUtkjAojWytdkyvjzSrj6LfOG8vqjUz7mytidQwP4prdWTCaNJS68QA%3D%3D

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids know what it's good for and what it is not.

My college student writes his papers without it.

My high schooler is in a "No AI" AP Lang class. They have to write things by hand a lot. He uses AI to study math and chemistry. Particularly to drill for tests. He finds that effective.

I have office software AI at work. So far it hasn't saved me much time.

I recently saw an analysis that said AI is excellent at quickly producing stuff that used to waste a lot of time and doesn't matter a whole lot. Like performance review comments. I agree.

Your job as a manager is care enough to put time and consideration into your employees' reviews. Come on. Be better or stop being a manager.

I'm not a manager. I am an "independent contributor". And I hate performance review season because few managers, even good ones, manage to give useful feedback via a formal documented process.

The whole HR industry is very aware of what is going on with AI and reviews.

If you actually care, you might be interested in this HR thoughtleader.

https://safespace.hateithere.co/events/c31a9c92-8df3-4b22-a5d6-3ccb80b27b3b

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids know what it's good for and what it is not.

My college student writes his papers without it.

My high schooler is in a "No AI" AP Lang class. They have to write things by hand a lot. He uses AI to study math and chemistry. Particularly to drill for tests. He finds that effective.

I have office software AI at work. So far it hasn't saved me much time.

I recently saw an analysis that said AI is excellent at quickly producing stuff that used to waste a lot of time and doesn't matter a whole lot. Like performance review comments. I agree.

Your job as a manager is care enough to put time and consideration into your employees' reviews. Come on. Be better or stop being a manager.

A good manager guides an employee all year long, not once a year in a CYA performance review.

A good manager takes all parts of the job seriously and respects their employees enough to not outsource reviews to AI.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids know what it's good for and what it is not.

My college student writes his papers without it.

My high schooler is in a "No AI" AP Lang class. They have to write things by hand a lot. He uses AI to study math and chemistry. Particularly to drill for tests. He finds that effective.

I have office software AI at work. So far it hasn't saved me much time.

I recently saw an analysis that said AI is excellent at quickly producing stuff that used to waste a lot of time and doesn't matter a whole lot. Like performance review comments. I agree.

Your job as a manager is care enough to put time and consideration into your employees' reviews. Come on. Be better or stop being a manager.

I'm not a manager. I am an "independent contributor". And I hate performance review season because few managers, even good ones, manage to give useful feedback via a formal documented process.

The whole HR industry is very aware of what is going on with AI and reviews.

If you actually care, you might be interested in this HR thoughtleader.

https://safespace.hateithere.co/events/c31a9c92-8df3-4b22-a5d6-3ccb80b27b3b

lol, no, thanks. I don't need an "HR thought leader" to tell me it's ok to abdicate my humanity to a climate-killing mediocrity machine.