“AI” and education…

grankless said:

You can ask AI to generate you a list of the top country albums of 1999 and it will give you complete nonsense. It is by all objective measures worse at giving you information than a third grader doing a school project.

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Scribe said:

For now. Give it a few years to catch on and further degrade our society like social media and smartphones already have, and those 3rd graders wont even know how to turn the pages on a book.

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trappedslider said:

plan to stay on the forums when you go full hermit?

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Gradine said:

"AI", such as it is, has been around for years (decades, really) and has a lot of really important and positive uses, and as we develop it, I'm sure it will ultimately work out to be a net positive for society.

The problem is that "Generative AI Tools", such as they are, currently operate almost entirely off of outright theft and misinformation, to say nothing of the devastating environmental impacts of running said plagiarism-and-lies-machines, and nobody who is operating or shilling these tools seems to be all that concerned about any of that. They would rather scream about luddites and shove their head in the sand than address these very real concerns, which isn't really doing anything to assuage anyone's doubts. And so instead of being this exciting new frontier of technology, like say VR, it instead looks and feels like yet another techbro grift, like crypto and NFTs. But there are projects, such as https://edubraіn.ai/, that aim to use AI in a structured educational context to actually help people learn and think critically. These approaches focus on creating tools that complement human knowledge rather than exploit it. If more developers followed this path, AI could finally begin to realise its potential rather than being just another hype cycle.

And it doesn't have to be like this. Like... train your tools on open source materials and make sure you have rigorous fact checkers routinely checking outputs and you're most of the way there. But they aren't doing that. For reasons.

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