American education isn’t actually about education, but about creating compliant cogs for the machinery of the corporate oligarchy. When the goal is the betterment of individuals and society, the methods with which you teach and assess progress will be dramatically different. This is more of an “American problem” than the rest of the world precisely because of how the American system is designed and implemented. It does not value, measure, reinforce, or reward individual betterment… but rote memorization and how compliant you are under the arbitrary authoritarian structure of the system.
Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
How are other countries handling it? I can’t imagine AI being an American only education issue.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Buelldozer@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Despite your wall of text this isn’t just a problem in the United States.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I never said it was. However it is a much bigger problem in the US.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
American education isn’t actually about education, but about creating compliant cogs for the machinery of the corporate oligarchy.
Well, historically that’s true.
But the modern American education system is about Stack Ranking to create the illusion of meritocracy. So the functional purpose of the system is to score better than the rest of your classmates. Since the actual lesson plan doesn’t matter and only the honors you get from completing the course are perceived to have value, you either want to cheat the hell out of every course to beat the herd. Or you want to find a degree plan where you can appear to be the Best Kid In Class, either through grade inflation or by participating in a class full of dropouts/fake students.
It does not value, measure, reinforce, or reward individual betterment… but rote memorization and how compliant you are under the arbitrary authoritarian structure of the system.
Rote memorization is easy to evaluate, because the answers are discrete and can be fed into a binary grading engine.
It’s also easy to cheat, because you don’t need to know how to solve the problems, just how to source the correct pattern of answers.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
How are other countries different?
6nk06@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
It’s in France and I guess everywhere else. Students can cheat for free and no longer need to do anything, why would they study anymore?
I’ve also seen a few young engineers using ChatGPT to do their job because it’s easier than working. When I told them their code was bad (with mentoring and help, I’m not an asshole), they used another prompt that changed their whole code but it was still full of bugs.
We’re doomed.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
In theory, they need to study in order to learn the skills necessary to be gainfully employed. But in practice, the promise of the future is “automate everything”, so might as well learn how to maximize the outputs of the Big Grifting Machine while you’re still young.
Why waste time mastering comprehensive writing when there won’t be any employers left to read what you wrote? Why waste time developing technical skills when everything gets outsourced to the lowest bidding firm in the South Pacific? Why waste time developing a talent for artistry, music, or cinema when we’ve decided the future of performative arts is whatever bot-farm best self-promotes AI slop to the top of the most trending Spotify playlist?
Why do they care if the code is full of bugs? They’ll be changing jobs in another two years anyway, because that’s the only way to get a raise. They aren’t invested in the success of their current firm, much less the profitablility of the clients they work for (who are, themselves, likely going to be outsourcing this shit to India in another few years). And all this work is just about maximizing the bottom line for private equity anyway, so why does anyone care if the project succeeds? It’s not like my quality of life hinges on my ability to do useful productive work.
And if quality of life declines? Just find someone to blame. Migrants. The Wrong Politicians. China. Lizard People. Fuck, I’ll just ask ChatGPT why my life sucks and believe everything it tells me, because… why not? Its not like everyone else isn’t lying.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I code for fun, have been doing so for decades and using AI as an helper has been amazing.
My coding skill in my cursed basic variants (VB6/VBA/vb.net)
translated overnight to basically any language that I want, it’s just amazing.
I can almost code in javascript by hand just from exposure, despite never formally trying to learn it
sfled@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Apropos of nothing, I read a post claiming that the phonetic pronunciation of “ChatGPT” in France translates to “Cat I farted.” So I used Google Translates audio and sure enough, “ChatGPT” and “Chat j’ai pété” sound nearly identical when piped through the app’s audio feature.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
Yeah, I figure this isn’t going to be an American only problem.