Using ChatGPT instead of learning

https://youtu.be/HquHcnLZpy8 Auto-generated transcript:I am on this beach in Maine. Atlantic Ocean, the tide is just going out. So this part of the beach is nice and flat and clean. We can see the waves coming in. Now you can see the few boats in the distance. Very, very tranquil, peaceful, wonderful scene. You've got the gulls doing what gulls do. Living for fish. I must recommend this wonderful book called Jonathan Livingston Seagull, which I suggest you should read. I think it's one of the finest books to read, to understand, especially the concept of excellence in life. I read it. I read it many times. The first time I read it when I was in school. And it teaches the concept of excellence. In that context, I would also recommend that you read all the books of Ayn Rand. A-Y-N-R-A-N-D. It also focuses on the concept of excellence, of taking pride in your work, of building a legacy that you can be confident and proud about, leaving behind some traces. Unlike traces in the sand, which wash off every time the tide comes in. But these are more long-lasting than that. Now, all of that comes from one very, very important thing in life, which is to actually do some work. Not just the pretense of work. To actually do some work. The reason I'm saying that is because, I was speaking to another very dear friend of mine who's studying, he's doing his engineering in one of the Ivy League colleges here, universities in America. And he was telling me that, I mean, he said it jokingly, but obviously he understands the seriousness of that. So he was telling me that, people are submitting assignments using ChatGPT. The whole thing. And so he said, professors have now a way of detecting where ChatGPT has been used and catching it. But he says now they have come up with a tool where they do what is called humanizing ChatGPT. So you don't get the usual flat kind of writing. That's what I'm saying. So you don't get the usual flat kind of writing. That's what I'm saying. You find with ChatGPT, you get something which sort of sounds half a human. And then of course, we know how this technology develops and how it will, it is capable of, you know, constantly improving and so on and so forth. Simultaneously, and so on. This is, I mean, I think Allah guides and helps in ways we cannot imagine. So, while I was listening to this friend of mine saying these things, I also got a message from another friend of mine who's also doing engineering, who sent me a New York Times article. And lo and behold, to my great delight, I discovered that New York Times not only published the article, but New York Times gives that article for you free. So the firewall, doesn't affect it. And I'm going to ask him to put it, put that article into the description of this, of this reminder. And that article talked about an actual case, complete case history of this person who, the chatbot convinced him that he was one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. And, um, you know, resulted in him, in him, um, sort of actually falling into mental illness. And good news is for in his case was that he managed to get out of it as well. So he was able to break that, which may not be obviously the case with everyone who falls into that kind of a trap. So you have this case of these people like that, uh, also happening because of chatbot. Another thing which happened again recently, and all of these things, I, you know, they happened together, uh, which in, which is a message in itself is, um, two people wrote letters, uh, in which I was mentioned. And very interestingly, both the letters, although these are two different people writing these two letters, and, uh, they're trying to make it seem as if they are two independent letters, but they have both used chatdpt, uh, very clearly visible from the tone of the letter and so on. And to the extent that the words they have used are the same, the exact same words in both the letters. Now, so of course it is, you know, easy to laugh at this and say, what kind of stupidity is this? And it is stupid. But I'm not talking about that. I'm saying you're getting in this cases of students in colleges who seem to be getting, uh, most of their work done using chatdpt or Gemini or one of the, uh, chatbots, one of the LLM models. Now, I'm not against, uh, AI or, uh, LLM models and so on. Although I never absolutely do not ever use chatdpt. Um, I don't even use it for research, but, uh, in some cases I use, uh, some other things, um, some other LLM models, which I think are better for some research. But my writing is always, always, always is me. I never ever use any AI for a very good reason. And that is that, Alhamdulillah, I am confident about my writing and I take pride in my writing. And I take pride in the fact that I, uh, I want my writing to be my signature. I want my writing to be something that, that, that I have done, uh, not something that some machine has done, which I'm trying to, um, even if I don't try to, uh, pretend that I did it, but just to, uh, just to take it and copy paste it is something I think is beneath my dignity. And it's an insult to my intelligence and my, uh, talent and capability. Final point before I, uh, close the roof to why I'm saying all this is a joke. Uh, quite a interesting joke. Somebody said, uh, it's, you'd better take care of your health because doctors are using chat GPT to get their degrees. Uh, that is a very significant and point in point, which I think is really worth thinking about. Take care of your health because doctors are using, using chat GPT. I know I'm not talking about take care of your health. It take care of your health anyway, irrespective of what doctors are using and not using, but take care of your, but the fact of, of the fact that doctors are using this chat GPT to get their degrees. And we certainly know that, uh, it's a very, uh, uh, I don't know if doctors actually using it, but maybe they are, uh, with engineers. Yes, they are using, I have, uh, statements from people in engineering colleges in America. Uh, so one can assume the same thing is happening as well in the world. Um, to say that people are using chat GPT to submit assignments and so on and so forth. And either they are the LLM model creators are creating, uh, tools to prevent them from being caught out. Question is this, the question is when you go to a college, what are you going there to do? So ask yourself this question. When you go to a college, what are you going there to do? And remember, no matter what you do, the fees is the same. You're paying the fee. You are, uh, spending that time, the three years, four years, whatever you are, you know, expanding energy and so forth. All of that you're doing. None of that changes one bit. Yet if you use an LLM model, fuse, uh, chat, GBT or Gemini or complexity or whatever you want to call it. If you use that to, to submit your assignments and so on, what have you learned? Right? Two very important things. What have you learned? Nothing. You've learned how to try to deceive the system. Is that worth learning? Is that your legacy? Is that something that you want to be known for? Somebody who deceived their way to get a degree. Yeah. Is that the epitaph on your headstone? Is that something that you want to be remembered for? That you are a cheat, that you got this degree by cheating? Number one. Number two, therefore what have you actually learned? Well, that's a dumb question. That's what have you learned? Nothing. Because obviously if you had, uh, if you got the chance, the chatbot to write your reports and your assignments, you learn nothing. And best you learn how to deceive. Number three, and that's very important, is you are sabotaging yourself because one of the greatest benefits, one of the greatest rewards, not even benefits, one of the greatest rewards of going to university is the feeling of, of, of, and of achievement. The feeling of achievement that I have achieved this. I have worked for this degree. I earned this degree. All the, uh, you know, the, the, the, the midnight oil I burned and when I was in business school, we were on this course, the executive, executive MBA course from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. It was called the MEP, Management Excellence Course. We used to study with the whole course was, it had, it was the fee was the same as the two-year MBA program. The fee was the same, the syllabus was the same. So we were studying the same things that the regular MBA candidates were studying and we did this course. But we did the course in, you know, half the time, one, two-thirds of the time. So the result obviously was that we had to work our butts off. We had to study like hell. We worked very, very, very hard. And among the things we did. It was, we, I mean, night outs was like the standard. I don't think I ever slept in that entire period. I don't think I slept for more than four hours in 24 hours on any day. The course itself was so intense that we had to do this course. There were no holidays, no festival holidays, no weekend obviously, no vacation, nothing. There was a one week. Break in the middle of the course where everyone went home. That was the purpose of it. But I couldn't go because I had no money. To attend the course, I had sold my car, used that money and the rest of it I borrowed from my company, which loaned me that money. They didn't sponsor me. I asked them for sponsorship. They did not give it. And they loaned me the money. They cut my pay for all the months that I would study in this course. They didn't pay me my salary for that. And they made me write a bond to say I would come back and work for three years thereafter with the company. Now, you're not looking at was that a nice thing to do or not a nice thing. Forget that. I was committed enough to say I'm willing to do all of this without question. I need the money. This is the only way I'm going to get it. So I took it. I wrote.