Original Reddit post

I’ll admit that I dislike the idea of AI and the various harms and risks that represents, so I could be biased. But I also am openminded and have been intermittently curious about how AI could help me with various projects or even whether AI could replace me (a high school English instructor). I have never used it to grade student essays not just because it would be unethical but become it cant, but from time to time I will see what it can do and whether it understands what true, multilayered analysis is. In my course, we emphasize deep thinking and careful consideration of specific text. Chat is really not good at either of those things. So far it absolutely sucks at anything generative or evaluative - anything beyond basic internet search. It is so weird in its limitations. it forgets things within a chat. It hallucinates lines from the text that are not there, and it is way off base when it comes to judging student work. I have my students handwrite everything, and I take their phones from them in case they’re tempted to use them in the bathroom - not so much because I’m afraid they will cheat. I have found that those who I suspect have used Chat while in the bathroom still produce written work that is not strong. I collect their phones because I believe trying to go on chat to “brainstorm” merely wastes time and works against them. Recently I also used the paid version of ChatGPT to try to design our closet. I submitted floorplans and all of the measurements of the components we wanted to use. It was very time-consuming to prompt, and the end result was still off by 4 feet. I would correct that one thing, and then in the new iteration a previously corrected mistake would be wrong again. I finally ended up drawing it out to scale myself using and then resubmitted it. The rendering is still wrong, but it was closer. In the end, I realized I should have just used the IKEA app and that I wasted a huge amount of time trying to generate a pretty image because it ended up being wrong anyway. The whole thing reminded me of the silly mistakes the robot girl would make in that old sitcom “Small Wonder.” Not too long ago, I asked it to help me with a weird issue I had with my taxes. It walked me through the steps on the tax portal, and later my husband discovered that I had done it all wrong. The only thing that it can sort of sometimes do is transcribe student handwriting, but even with that I have to be really careful because it can make assumptions. I guess I just don’t understand how this thing is so hyped when, in my experience, it simply sucks. We have an AI expert at our , and she’s always telling me that I didn’t set up the prompt right. But when she prompted something for me, it was still just as time-consuming as me doing it by myself. So my question is: am I wrong? Do any of you find yourself wondering how AI can replace us if it also really sucks after all this time? submitted by /u/Fraulina

Originally posted by u/Fraulina on r/ArtificialInteligence