[technothrasher]

> Except that if a student wants to learn without using them

My son, who is a freshman at a major university in NYC, when he said to his freshman English professor that he wanted to write his papers without using AI, was told that this was "too advanced for a freshman English class" and that using AI was a requirement.

[senordevnyc]

Now colleges will have to try and detect if you didn't use AI!

[tdeck]

I don't understand what they think it is they're teaching? Will we teach kids to "read" by taking a photo of their bedtime story and hitting a button next?

[Izkata]

I'm afraid you're decades late for something similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_language

One of the teaching methods is "look at the context, like pictures, and guess what the word is". One example I remember was thinking "pony" is "horse" due to association without being able to sound it out.