Comment on AI in Education: Doomed?

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FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Education needs to move with the times. “AI”, LLMs, etc are not going away and they’re only going to become more and more integrated into everyday life. Kids need to be taught how to use them, and most importantly that they’re not 100% correct all or even most of the time.

If you don’t teach them these things then you end up with people like we have now - mindlessly believing everything they say, and believing that they are “alive” and have feelings and relationships.

Just like a calculator, a laptop, and a bunsen burner - they’re a tool. If you operate them wrong you’ll get incorrect results that might look and sound right.

The entire education system in most countries needs an overhaul to be more relevant for the world we live in. There should be no student coming out of school that doesn’t understand how interest and loans work, or the basics of taxes a normal person has to navigate, for example. LLMs and their accuracy/inaccuracy should be another. Assessments also need to change - closed book stuff basically shouldn’t exist for maths for example, and take home essays should be a thing of the past. They have no place in the current world.

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