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Funnily enough, all my engineering professors seem to encourage the use of genAI for anything as long as it’s “not doing the learning for you”
What’s funny is that there’s basically no practical use for GenAI in engineering in the first place. Images like technical drawings need to be precise and code written for FDM/FEA etc. needs to be validated by some kind of mathematical model you derived yourself.
They say “it’s a useful new tool” and when I ask “what is it useful for” they typically have no answer besides “writing grant proposals” lol
There are lots of useful applications for machine learning in engineering, but very few if any practical applications for genAI.
I mean thats a time suck for most researchers.
This is the most important aspect of "science". You gotta write those beg letter to the MIC. I'm sure nobody actually reads them, so "AI" is a great solution... (within a garbage system of capitalism/imperialism that's literally destroying the planet.)
I have a friend who is an engineering professor, and he constantly moans about the worst part of teaching being the reports that his students write... and that was before this LLM craze took off. I should ask him about how it's going now.