Sure, this is possible. Also Chegg is an "innovative learning tool", not a way to cheat.
I agree that it's not that different than asking a tutor though, assuming it's a personal tutor whom are you paying so they won't ever refuse to answer. I've never had access to someone like that, but I can totally believe that if I did, I would graduate without learning much.
Back to ChatGPT: during my college times I've had plenty of times when I was really struggling, I remember feeling extremely frustrated when my projects would not work, and spending long hours in the labs. I was able to solve this myself, without any outside help, be it tutors or AI - and I think this was the most important part of my education, probably at least as important as all the lectures I went to. As they say, "no pain, no gain".
That said, our discussion is kinda useless - it's not like we can convince college students to stop using AI. The bad colleges will pass everyone (this already happens), the good colleges will adapt (probably by assigning less weight to homework and more weight to in-class exams). Students will have another reason to fail the class: in additional to classic "I spend whole semester partying/playing computer games instead of studying", they would also say "I never opened books and had ChatGPT do all assignments for me, why am I failing tests?"
I agree that it's not that different than asking a tutor though, assuming it's a personal tutor whom are you paying so they won't ever refuse to answer. I've never had access to someone like that, but I can totally believe that if I did, I would graduate without learning much.
Back to ChatGPT: during my college times I've had plenty of times when I was really struggling, I remember feeling extremely frustrated when my projects would not work, and spending long hours in the labs. I was able to solve this myself, without any outside help, be it tutors or AI - and I think this was the most important part of my education, probably at least as important as all the lectures I went to. As they say, "no pain, no gain".
That said, our discussion is kinda useless - it's not like we can convince college students to stop using AI. The bad colleges will pass everyone (this already happens), the good colleges will adapt (probably by assigning less weight to homework and more weight to in-class exams). Students will have another reason to fail the class: in additional to classic "I spend whole semester partying/playing computer games instead of studying", they would also say "I never opened books and had ChatGPT do all assignments for me, why am I failing tests?"