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"You won't always have a calculator to do math for you!" Screamed my algebra teacher.
I don't like AI, I don't use AI, or sparingly (via Google results, no Chats). I honestly am having a tough time reconciling the difference, other than the impacts AI is having on society via hardware shortages, water and power consumption, etc. I'm just wondering if it is dumbing us down in the same way always having a calculator did, or did not.
Calculators dont give wrong answers. But the problem with "You won't always have a calculator to do math for you" was that it ignores the requirement to actually learn the math. If a student is tasked with learning multiplication, using a calculator won't teach them how to multiply. The best math teachers grade based on the work shown, not the answer. AI is being used how calculators were being used. Students aren't doing any work and therefore are not learning how to do anything. Producing answers alone isn't the point of school, even when the answers are correct.
They absolutely do give wrong answers, as in this classic meme that's way off because of floating point:
On another note, why the huge difficulty spike between that question and the next one lol