[ExI] Polanyi's Personal Coefficient

[MB]

Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat wrote:

> Ah, but what and how to ask?  I encountered this personally in the
> 1990s in college, when the ability to research online was new, and I
> somewhat specialized in it.
> 
> No one called my research fake or lazy.  It held up enough to support
> my Master's thesis.  Yes, it had blatant tells of being Web-supported
> - I didn't even bother to exclude the URLs from online sources.
> 
> But I didn't just parrot what I found online.  I got those thoughts
> and restated in my own words.  That was sufficient.
> 
> One can imagine a lesson on this where one is supposed to use an AI,
> and half the assignment is to copy and paste what you prompted and
> what it said.  The other half is to restate it in your own words:
> talking just like the AI in that section will get negative marks.
> (One could perhaps ask the AI to state it in your voice, but I'm not
> sure how well that would usually work.)
>
Indeed, how to ask.  *I* don't know. My google-fu is pathetic. I don't 
see web-supported as a bad thing, but to just parrot what you find is 
not sufficient.  (Surely it is no worse than being Ency-Brit supported! :D )

Except.....  One expected the Ency_Brit to be rather accurate, or at 
least accurate for the time.  Online, one simply does not know: the 
reference could all be GIGO.

I suspect that is where the real discernment must come in. And how do 
you train a child to see that?

My nephew bought an old Ency-Brit from pre WW1.  He was most impressed 
with it - and the world it presented - completely different from the 
late 20th century, much less early 21st.  The articles were in-depth 
studies.  Now, not so much.  With AI? I don't know.

Regards,
MB