Comment on A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom
Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 5 days agoI didn’t really say AI bad,
Implying GenAi gives wrong answers isn’t saying AI bad?
If you ask AI the same question twice you get 2 answers, different AIs give different responses, different prompts, different people, different geography.
That’s true of people too, and we trust them to do all sorts of things. Ask 20 people what happens after you die, how many answers are you getting? Not just that ask any technical question, ask 4 beekeepers the best way to do a thing and you’ll get 5 answers.
GenAI is a tool, if you try use it to hammer in nails you’re gonna have a bad time. Don’t try use it to hammer in nails.
It turns out wrote answers to wrote questions is something it does fairly well, and it’s still getting better. That’s good, as a society we’ve moved past wrote answers to wrote questions. We should now prepre kids for the society they are going to grow up in, one with GenAI. Critical thinking is something it does fairly poorly, critical thinking is something we do fairly poorly, let’s teach that.
Beyond academics, shitty throwaway art is something it can also do fairly well. Just want an image use GenAi, want a master piece get a human. You already do this, how many of your clothes are handmade? Used a milliner recently? The Luddites taught us a lesson, attacking looms don’t work.
I hope I was the last generation to spend hours on long division with quotes of “you won’t always have access to a calculator”. Those that go into fields where long division may be useful should learn it, the rest of us have calculators.
TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
The point of learning long division is so you understand it. Once you understand it, THEN you can use the calculator.
Your entire argument is prefaced on the assumption that genAI is something that is actually useful.
The corollary of your luddite point is that EVERY SINGLE TECHNOLOGY is useful and groundbreaking and should be adopted.
That’s obviously not the case, lots of technologies are dead ends or can be accomplished much more efficiently with existing technology.
If genAI is a tool, can you tell me what exactly it is that it does?
Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 2 days ago
That wasn’t my experience of learning long division. Not a lot of time was spent on understanding the process. A lot of time was spent on repetition, repetition, repetion until it was wrote. The division button on the calculator was faster, easier and gave more accurate results.
No. The corollary of my luddite argument is that tools are tools. Attacking the tools don’t work to solve systemic problems.
See post for one example of students using it as a tool.
See, the “AI bad” people are funny. In a post about how people are actually using GenAI as a tool to achieve their goals “If genAI is a tool, can you tell me what exactly it does”?
It is a shame the airways a late clogged with this nonsense instead of how the wealthy are using tools, any tools, to concentrate wealth.
TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I do t think you have great reading comprehension or understand arguments. Maybe get chatgpt to write your next answer
Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
Just to be clear, you just learned that chat gpt can be used as a tool to help someone interpret text? Well at least you learned something