No, I understand it’s not about the specific technology, but I thought you were trying to imply that they were similar and that they produce the same results in reference to writing papers. My apologies if that was incorrect.
what I meant is that new technologies tend to make people forget how things were done before they existed.
in the older example, my reply would be a sarcastic, “try a library!” Because that’s how we did research before we could just look anything up on the internet.
hell, there was a time when I wasn’t allowed to hand in my homework typed, as my teachers didn’t believe that I had completed the work myself unless they saw it in my own handwriting-- even though they were fully aware that was taking typing/computer classes. (elementary school in the 80s was… very different).
Having to write a book report in fifth grade on an author of a book and a book itself with only a school library or a local library available to you was an entire journey, not an afternoon. It took, like, a week, and you had to learn how to write footnotes and end notes with complete references and formatting and everything.
End during that journey, you had to learn a lot about how to do all of those things before you could even get at the information you wanted or needed.
When people say “things were better then, a lot of times that may be what they were referring to, because if I wanted to write a book report about, “to kill a Mockingbird“, I had to learn a lot just to get to that information. And that was the point of it.
Now, with AI, I’ve put more effort into this comment then some kid does to produce a 10 page essay about that book and the author without even having to read the book.
I didn’t say that the internet and LLMs were the same, but that the above conversation and ones I’d had about the internet were.
I think you misunderstood the context; this was about writing papers unassisted by technology, not about the specific technology involved.
No, I understand it’s not about the specific technology, but I thought you were trying to imply that they were similar and that they produce the same results in reference to writing papers. My apologies if that was incorrect.
what I meant is that new technologies tend to make people forget how things were done before they existed.
in the older example, my reply would be a sarcastic, “try a library!” Because that’s how we did research before we could just look anything up on the internet.
hell, there was a time when I wasn’t allowed to hand in my homework typed, as my teachers didn’t believe that I had completed the work myself unless they saw it in my own handwriting-- even though they were fully aware that was taking typing/computer classes. (elementary school in the 80s was… very different).
Yeah, makes sense from that angle. Thanks.
Having to write a book report in fifth grade on an author of a book and a book itself with only a school library or a local library available to you was an entire journey, not an afternoon. It took, like, a week, and you had to learn how to write footnotes and end notes with complete references and formatting and everything.
End during that journey, you had to learn a lot about how to do all of those things before you could even get at the information you wanted or needed.
When people say “things were better then, a lot of times that may be what they were referring to, because if I wanted to write a book report about, “to kill a Mockingbird“, I had to learn a lot just to get to that information. And that was the point of it.
Now, with AI, I’ve put more effort into this comment then some kid does to produce a 10 page essay about that book and the author without even having to read the book.
How far we have backslid