Watching a teenager approach their homework, instead of struggling to answer questions they don't know, they ask Gemini. Unfortunately, I think the mental struggle to approach an answer is where much of the learning is. They also miss out on the reward for persistence of seeing things fall together.
It is troubling. It suggests a plateauing of human understanding.
It's a struggle to map a good approach - LLM-based tools are a boon in some respects, like having a personal tutor. But in others are fundamentally opposed to the process of education.
Like, I asked ChatGPT to make me some problems, it did, then I got to check my answers. In the past I'd have had a textbook for that; but schools stopped giving those out decades ago.
It is troubling. It suggests a plateauing of human understanding.