| The role of university isn't to resist nor embrace. When I was in university, I did finance + economics + a bunch of other random stuff from CS to archaeology to philosophy. One subject that was interesting from a technology standpoint was statistics. I took university at a point when ML was a thing, but LLMs obviously weren't. R was a thing, Python was beginning to get popular in the domain, you potentially had all sorts of tech to help with stats. Introduction to stats, no technology was allowed. Every single problem was done by hand. Every single quiz and test, no calculators, no multiple choice, just problems to work through by hand. If you cheated on assignments, you'd obviously fail tests (which were >50% of the course). Problem solved. We had to learn without aids. Second stats course, everything was allowed. Did all my assignments with R. The point was simply learning. First theory, then how it's done on the real world. University absolutely should teach all the theories, concepts and history before AI. And then it should also teach how to use AI, since it's a thing in the real world. People just need to stop thinking about university as all about grades and check marks, and learn to learn. |