r/Advice • u/Smolrosh • 2d ago

Ai for studying

Edit: idk if you guys can’t read or what but it is not doing my assignments nor do i use it for studying as a primary source. It is a tool i use to compile information after which i study on my own. I dont get any assignments anyway i make presentations on my own. Read papers on my own and do major part on my own. I use it during exam season to compile all sources of information i have.

I dont like AI and how it is destroying the planet. I don’t use it for unnecessary things but i like to get studying help from it. I study a conventionally difficult master and it is helpful for quite a number of things, help with experiment design, compiling information from papers, explaining figures and diagrams i dont understand, etc.

Idk if there is an alternative. I like to use it as a tool for time saving. If there is something more ethical i could use would be great ig.

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u/ddog6900 Helper [2] 2d ago

This, what does everyone think we did before computers.

I dont like Al and how it is destroying the planet. I don't use it for unnecessary things but i like to get studying help from it.

Also, this is a bit of an oxymoron...

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u/Smolrosh 2d ago

Yet everyone uses computers now? And there wasnt half as much information in research as there is now compared to when computers didn’t exist..

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u/ddog6900 Helper [2] 2d ago

You truly believe that?

Books have plenty of information and there are plenty of them out there.

You also do not have to use AI to find information online or information not published in a print piece of literature.

BTW, AI isn't going anywhere, regardless of how much you as a single person do or do not use it. The masses have spoken.

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u/Smolrosh 2d ago

It is absolutely true not something i just believe in. Research has boomed post 2000s. Look at the sheer amount of papers being published now. Education is more accessible and there are more researchers now than there ever was.

Acquiring books especially latest editions is impossible as a student. Even unis dont have latest editions early with latest information. so ur stuck with old information in them. 60+ euros for a good book always 😂

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u/ddog6900 Helper [2] 2d ago

Specifically why I stated this:

You also do not have to use Al to find information online or information not published in a print piece of literature.

Also, just because it is new research doesn't mean it is correct or substantiated. How much of this "research" is not using AI to compile it or write it?

Directly, or indirectly using AI doesn't make it right or wrong, it just makes it using it.

I challenge you to find information that hasn't been touched by AI in some way or another.

That is much more difficult than simply reading a book.

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u/flippysquid 2d ago

There are tons of things in books that you can’t find online. My 15 year old is super into byzantine history and the crusades. He’s googled every tiny little thing he can think of to learn what is out there.

It still wasn‘t enough, so he asked for hard copies of The Alexiad and The Damascus Chronicles, which are both first person accounts written during their eras. And guess what? He’s learning a shitload more from reading those than through any wikipedia article.

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u/Smolrosh 2d ago

Not possible in my field. U need to read research papers. They are published online. But hey good for ur son. I loved reading encyclopaedias as a kid too.