AI use for neurodivergent students

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[u/Acceptable-Bed1963]

I am autistic. I've completed an associates, bachelor's and master's degree and are looking to do another bachelors.

I use LLM's as it was designed to be, a tool. It's a productivity tool, it cannot form intelligent thought or provide advice the same way a human can do so. Most of the time it'll parrot your ideas or cockride/brownnose you the entire chat depending on the model.

I use LLM's within the academic setting to complete assignments I feel like were created simply so there was something to complete and is low quality and lazy (e.g. forcing a discussion post and replying to two people. You could argue that it's for a participation grade but I would rather learn instead of having to make/look at equally fake responses to your fake happy discussion post. Nobody wants to do a discussion post and it is indeed lazy teaching.) but I put effort into actual coursework that's designed to teach. LLM's can't help you learn if you have it complete everything.

That being said, I think if professors were to stop assigning pointless busywork (I paid to be here to learn, not be in a sharing circle) then I would stop using LLM's in my work. (I call AI LLM's because that's what they are. Large Language Models are not artificial intelligence)

[u/No-Particular5490 → u/Acceptable-Bed1963]

I have completed my doctorate, and even had to do discussion posts for those online classes. I’ve learned that nobody on the face of this earth, likes discussion posts, but colleges require that professors use them as a way to form community within the class. Otherwise, students would never interact with each other. That said, I hate them with a burning passion and find them of absolutely no educational value.

[u/OtherwiseMove646 → u/No-Particular5490]

Agreed and accurate.

[u/No-Particular5490]

I’m curious what the professor is presenting. What was the original research question and what were the results of the research?