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When do you think the young should learn prompt engineering?
321 sats \ 4 comments \ @cryotosensei 2h AI
My school had a collaboration with the National Institute of Education, which meant that my fifth graders got to test out a LLM chatbot dedicated to honing writing skills before they crafted their composition. Sample prompts were given to me by the ICT coordinator in charge of this project, so I thought that everything would be a breeze.
However, it turned out that some of my students became frustrated in the midst of using this chatbot. Seemed that they couldn’t get a direct answer from it. It kept asking them to clarify exactly what was expected of it.
The above was feedback that I gave to the ICT coordinator.
While it’s true that excessive use of AI will cause cognitive atrophy, people who use it judiciously do experience less stress with their workload. I should know. I copied and pasted all the positive remarks my colleagues had given for our students when the latter was sitting for their final-year exam onto ChatGPT. I then prompted ChatGPT to make sense of it and organise my colleagues’ remarks coherently. Instantly, it delivered.
Seems hypocritical of me not to teach my 11-year-olds how to prompt to achieve results, but should primary school students use their grey brain cells more before depending on LLMs?
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 1h
I do not recommend the use of any commercial LLM or open weights imitation to be used by anyone unless they are resistant to gaslighting. No matter the age. Prompt engineering is training specific and the problems with LLMs are caused in the training.
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286 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 2h
IMO the bigger issue is not learning how to prompt, it's learning how to evaluate LLM output.
If you can tell whether the output is good or bad, and especially if you can tell why it was good or bad, you can adjust your prompt accordingly.
To know how to evaluate LLM output, you need critical thinking, domain experience, taste, and agency (to know what you are trying to accomplish). LLM does not do those things for you.
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @AliceA 1h
Screen time is detrimental on the developing brain. The screen flickers and emits bluelight. It is making them sick and changing their behavior.
You said it yourself "excessive use of AI will cause cognitive atrophy”, whatever you teach your 11 year olds, aim to do it with minimal screen time, they get enough.
Do you use lamps to light your classroom? The overhead lights are toxic...
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @035736735e 45m outlawed
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