Comment Fluency in AI? (Score 1) 73
There is nothing simpler than *using* AI, just write a prompt and get your result. That's the whole point of AI, any dumbass can use it. "Prompt engineering" is overrated unless it is a system prompt of if you are doing stuff like jailbreaking or prompt injection, neither are particularly relevant to "normal" use, and not that hard anyways. The only thing you really need to know is that sometimes, LLMs hallucinate, so you need to verify. And sure enough fact checking is something all universities should teach, but it is not exclusive to AI by far.
Now *understanding* AI (i.e. machine learning) is another story. Algorithms, linear algebra, statistics, etc... These are hard to pass in many scientific fields nowadays, with so many papers involving machine learning. But it doesn't seem to be what it is about.
And BTW, I think one *should* ban chatbot use for classwork. Students will have more than enough occasions to use it outside of school. Instead, school should teach students how to think by themselves, so when they are inevitably going to use chatbots in other personal or professional situations, they can do it with a working brain. The "creative" ideas in the article are not, there is no creativity in having ideas being suggested by a LLM. "karma and the practice of returning shopping carts", come on, that's a meme.