AI is probably the worst invention sense the atom bomb.
It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System
Submitted 3 weeks ago by youradhere@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://gizmodo.com/its-breathtaking-how-fast-ai-is-screwing-up-the-education-system-2000603100
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drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
canajac@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
AI is not your enemy. It IS the future whether you like it or not. Your kids will benefit from AI in ways you cannot even imagine.
Zink@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Of course AI isn’t the enemy. The enemy is their corporate ownership.
But no doubt AI will be huge in the future, in the sense that “AI” basically means “much better computing capabilities than we have now.”
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Yes, but like mental math, it didn’t go away when we introduced calculators, and there’s a correlation between people who have those skills and income levels (which I’m using as a proxy for “usefulness”). The education system needs to adapt to assignments that students can’t just paste into ChatGPT and call it a day- students need to keep spending effort learning.
theblips@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
True but a downvote magnet on Lemmy. But I would dispute the “benefit” part… What exactly is the benefit in not having to learn anything? Why would I even want to exist if not to be good at something and create something? It just seems like we’re building towards stuff that’s better than us at doing what WE want to do as a society. Thinking about chess here: why would I care about the best Stockfish moves in every line of my favorite opening if no one will ever be able to explain them?
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Congrats you are now the old person saying “young bad”
capybara@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Congrats! You are now the tech bro implying “Chatgpt good”
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Bet the squirt of dopamine yout got hitting send was orgasmic
gndagreborn@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
BRO, what an opinion. Love how out of touch and sarcastic you are. Really adds to the “I am not aware of the damage tech billionaires are vomiting out into society” vibe.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If the goal of school was to learn then people wouldn’t cheat the learning process.
When the goal is a piece of paper that makes you more likely to be employed then people will find the easiest path to get the piece of paper.
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
My my university (California State University system) has some chatgpt school partnership now.
Chessmasterrex@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Prelude to the society Vonnegut wrote about in ‘Player Piano’ and Bradbury in ‘Farenheit 451’
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
And Isaac Asimov’s The Feeling of Power, a short story about a man who can do mathematics in his head, a skill long forgotten after computers do all calculations for humanity.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
basically idiocracy, in idiocracy, it was the AI supercomputer that was running the whole society for the 500years, it was assigning jobs, or removing jobs, or doing other stuff.
aidan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Maybe the best headline that’s come out of the recent LLM explosion
ZMoney@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If we decide to ban smartphones from schools we should ban them from work too. I’m supposed to be writing an article right now and instead I’m here. Then we should ban them from streets so that people have to pay attention to where they are going and the things going on around them. At that point we’d have something like functioning human beings again instead of mindless zombies. We could still have terminals for plugging into the Machine but our time with it should be regulated (like it already is with research clusters) so that we don’t waste energy. There, the whole problem is solved and all it takes is a global butlerian jihad.
theblips@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Honestly, just erase all graded homework, papers included. All of it. It wasn’t even good at anything to begin with and we would just cheat off each other, but now it’s even worse.
JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Essays and projects were of marginal educational value in grade school and won’t be missed. They were always just a cop out for lazy teachers.
Until the 1990s, 100% of the university grade was based on examinations, so AI would have been irrelevant, that was watered down to save costs.
Epic@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
lol , piret getting robbed kind of situation we are in
LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
😮💨😮💨
sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I love that this guy is in an Ivy League school to meet his ‘co-founder’, when it’s hard to believe that someone that knows nothing and is intellectually incurious could ever found anything of value.
tamal3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
My point is that it’s a somewhat outdated skill, and these kids have enough to figure out without the encumbrance of a paper dictionary. Most of my kids have never used one before, and yes, I can show them how to use it, but it’s not a functional testing accommodation. Testing accommodations should not include learning skills that are only tangentially related, especially not when there is a reasonable alternative.
toastmeister@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
The teacher uses a PowerPoint and multiple choice tests to depict fake effort at teaching, the students use AI to depict fake effort at learning. I see nothing wrong here.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
chunes@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oh no, maybe teachers will have to put effort into their students beyond assigning homework that an AI can do.
SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Oh, do your regional school districts let teachers design their own curriculum?
chunes@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
My point exactly. You won’t find good teachers in public education.
DonPiano@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Do you believe that the point of such assignments is because the teacher desires to read a couple dozen nigh-identical essays on the topic at hand?
chunes@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is my point exactly. They don’t desire that. Nor should they. And so they shouldn’t do that.