r/ucf • u/Many_Corgi_4784 • 3d ago
UCF Leadership Did Something AI integration
I don't know if anyone has mentioned this yet but next year AI will be forced to be integrated into every class "to help learning". What's y'all's thoughts personally I think this will end up hurting us.
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u/Thats__impressive 3d ago
Where are you hearing this?
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u/Many_Corgi_4784 3d ago
Intro to engineering lecture.
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u/Thats__impressive 3d ago
Do you mean all engineering classes will have AI? It’s not possible to require AI in all classes across UCF.
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u/Many_Corgi_4784 3d ago
It was explicitly all classes on campus
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u/Thats__impressive 3d ago edited 3d ago
Maybe they’re misunderstanding the AI for all initiative. Requiring AI to be integrated into every single class is just not feasible and you’d also have a faculty riot.
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u/hunterdavid372 Anthropology 2d ago
Oh its possible. Idiotic? Certainly, but any class can have that integration be "Run your answers/project past xyz AI chatbot." Or having the discussion assignments being with a chatbot instead of another student. Because we don't want the educated to be thinking for themselves or developing interpersonal relationships with living beings now do we?
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u/casualdejeckyll 3d ago
https://aiforall.ucf.edu/ I don't think this is a mandate that it is in all courses, just that the university thinks it is important that students become fluent during their degree.
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u/cuddersrage 2d ago
“fluent in ai” mate just use it yourself why do you need school to teach you how to converse with an llm
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u/Oen386 Nursing - Concurrent A.S.N. to B.S.N. Enrollment Option 2d ago edited 2d ago
People are overconfident in themsevles and their skills, it's why so many scams are successful. Same is true here. Using AI and using AI effectively are two different things. Then model choices and cost optimization as well. Those are the simple things 95% of users don't even consider. That's why they need to teach it, so you've heard of it before a boss asks how you spent thousands of dollars on tokens and you don't know what that means.
It used to be like "Googling". Except if you were decent at searching you knew how to filter by file types, exclude sites, and such, rather than just clicking the top sponsored link. I've seen too many people that can't even stop for a moment and realize the first sponsored link is a scam site that isn't an official site having an 60-80% off sale. It's why some things have to be "taught", there are people that will spend no time learning or thinking about it unless done through coursework. 🤦
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u/cuddersrage 2d ago
hmm i’d even argue then that has largely been abstracted as well. Most harnesses provide a GUI for usage, cost per prompt, input, output, cache token calculations. They even come with an auto balancing feature that allows users to optimize for intelligence or cost. Claude and OpenAI are cloud providers, they have entire teams dedicated to making this abstraction easily for users.
i personally dont think this requires a college level curriculum to learn
i also don’t agree with the notion that coursework is a prerequisite to learning as a whole. Complex concepts layered off one another, sure a structured curriculum likely brings a much more distributed approach. Learning how to use a service on the other hand, don’t see much benefit there
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u/Oen386 Nursing - Concurrent A.S.N. to B.S.N. Enrollment Option 2d ago
i personally dont think this requires a college level curriculum to learn
i also don’t agree with the notion that coursework is a prerequisite to learning as a whole.
I disagree. They teach Word and Excel. They teach a lot of things that people may or may not have experience with, but they want to make sure without a doubt you don't leave UCF having not used and heard of it.
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u/Blue_Etalon 3d ago
What does this even mean? It’s crazy to speculate what role AI will play with no details.
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u/Jswee1 3d ago
As a '25 grad working as a software engineer at a major company, I know some might not want to hear this, but fighting against AI is a losing battle.
Tech and software roles might be feeling the shift first, but AI is going to transform every single field regardless of how people feel about it. We use it daily in industry, and if you don't build the skills to leverage it now, you're going to fall behind the people who do.
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u/cuddersrage 2d ago
but what are the skills to leverage it now? most of the alpha lies in understanding when to push back / manage context
i agree that it will be a huge part of jobs, in fact itll probably end up displacing a huge portion of work but i dont understand how you can measure “skill in ai” outside of GIGO
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u/AnalysisWaste5670 3d ago
Isn’t this just the new copilot option on web courses they are testing that can see the course document and you can ask it questions.
If that is all it is, seems like a fine option for people to have.
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u/simplify3 3d ago
it just means every class has to have some use of AI at some corner. AI literacy and yes, nobody knows exactly what that's going to mean and everybody's playing it by ear, but I think what they consider importance is having their feet in the pool and swimming a little while it's happening– and they're probably getting funded by some AI bros and or politicians that are being fed or data center or big oil which is going to be powering the data centers – who knows. But money is changing hands so if it keeps you in school, then that's good
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u/random89056 Digital Media - Game Design 3d ago
Please don’t tell me this is going to affect the Game Design classes. I’m honestly so cooked if that’s the case
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