Purdue University approves new AI requirement for all undergrads

That was my thought, it feels like something a career college or high school would do. Are CS students going to have to take a “how to talk to chat gpt course”? That’s probably less condescending than making an arts student or someone else that doesn’t need to have anything to do with LLMs have to sit through it.

I though Purdue was a good school, these kind of gimmicks are usually the province of low-tier universities trying to get attention.

Optimistically, the idea could be to push prerequisites to an always-on, ever-available resource. Depending on the major, skills could include organizing papers into outlines, using Excel, or building a computer.

Professors can tailor lectures to narrower topics or advanced, current, or more specialized subjects. There may be less need to have a series of beginning or introductory courses--it's assumed learners will avail themselves.

Pessimistically, AI literacy contributes to further erosion of critical thinking, lazy auto-grading, and inability to construct book-length arguments.

> “how to talk to chat gpt course”?

it's not unrealistic to be selecting for people with strong language skills and the ability to break tasks into discrete components and assemble them into a process. or the skill of being able to define what they do not know.

a lot of what makes a person good with an llm makes them also good at general problem solving.

> Optimistically, the idea could be to push prerequisites to an always-on, ever-available resource.

Ever-available… until ClosedAI decides that you did something wrong and bans your account.