Not to take away from the main story, but the student was clearly cheating on their homework with Gemini, directly pasting all of the questions.
“This is only for you, human”
It’s one thing to come up with an explanation that makes sense. It’s another to try to scaffold an explanation to adjust reality into the way you want it to be. Stop lying to yourself, human.
The best answer we have right now is we don’t understand what’s going on in these models.
> I cannot have personal experiences, but I can imagine how this theory might manifest in human behavior.
And ends with:
> put in paragraph form in laymen terms
Why on earth would you lol.
It’s not significantly different from googling each question.
> Why on earth would you lol.
Because school is hard, I was a kid, homework takes a ton of time, and I would rather be playing video games. Of course the temptation to cheat would be there.
How is it different?
A flathead screwdriver isn’t good for the class of screws that have a hex head, but both flathead and hex screwdrivers are still screwdrivers.
Looking things up on Google was considered cheating in the early 2000s
> Because school is hard, I was a kid, homework takes a ton of time, and I would rather be playing video games
This is a reason to NOT resist. I was asking “why on earth would you resist the temptation”
If you just want the degree to unlock certain jobs or prestige, and aren't morally opposed to cheating, I can see how it would seem rational.