overgeeked
Open-World Sandbox
This is damned scary...
“AI” and education…
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Meh. Same scare tactics as the movement against Wikipedia. Or television.
Does AI need to be used properly? Yes. Are the details worked out yet? No. Is the sky falling? No.
The world will continue unabated.
Edit: Adding to my post
"i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all of these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong"
First, well, duh. The root cause of the problem here is that you were never supposed to be teaching that these things were authoritative. Teach how to verify facts and sources. Teach critical thinking. A search engine, Youtube, or even a book would lie just as easily as ChatGPT did here.
Second, for the love of education please learn how to capitalize properly. The author sounds like they're trying to claim to be some sort of a teacher, but they type like a child.
Does AI need to be used properly? Yes. Are the details worked out yet? No. Is the sky falling? No.
The world will continue unabated.
Edit: Adding to my post
"i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all of these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong"
First, well, duh. The root cause of the problem here is that you were never supposed to be teaching that these things were authoritative. Teach how to verify facts and sources. Teach critical thinking. A search engine, Youtube, or even a book would lie just as easily as ChatGPT did here.
Second, for the love of education please learn how to capitalize properly. The author sounds like they're trying to claim to be some sort of a teacher, but they type like a child.
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Scribe
Legend
Just an continuation of the Idiocracy we have been dealing with for the last several years. "I believe it, therefore it is true." "Saw it on Twitter, therefore..." "I asked AI and...."
Its going to be absolutely hilarious in 10 years when we expect this generation to actually get things done as the rest of us try and retire.
Its going to be absolutely hilarious in 10 years when we expect this generation to actually get things done as the rest of us try and retire.
BookTenTiger
He / Him
As an elementary school teacher, AI (or whatever you want to call it) seems to be sneaking in from every direction. For example, our school uses Chromebooks (which started to become popular during the pandemic and then exploded in student use during the pandemic). This means the students primarily type essays, stories, and reports on Google Docs. This last year, Google Docs started suggesting the next word or phrases it thinks you want to type.
What this means is that I'm having to actively teach my students how to ignore or turn off the feature so that they can learn how to develop their own thoughts.
What's annoying (and a little scary) about it is that Google made a big push to provide schools with Chromebooks. But there's no communication about how they're implementing AI (or other software) on Google Docs and other programs that kids frequently use. As teachers, we're having to be reactive about AI instead of proactive.
What this means is that I'm having to actively teach my students how to ignore or turn off the feature so that they can learn how to develop their own thoughts.
What's annoying (and a little scary) about it is that Google made a big push to provide schools with Chromebooks. But there's no communication about how they're implementing AI (or other software) on Google Docs and other programs that kids frequently use. As teachers, we're having to be reactive about AI instead of proactive.
BookTenTiger
He / Him
This feels like going into a thread about a car crash and saying, "Oh look, another discussion about how cars are only bad."
As a teacher, I can tell you that AI (or whatever you want to call it) is a huge issue and feeds into the general lack of media literacy of our society at large. It's something that educators need to be taught about and prepared for, but everything is developing so fast that we are left reacting to things instead of being able to use them to help students.
It is also going to be hugely important going forward and provide numerous benefits in additionto challenges and dangers. Repeating "AI BAD" over and over doesn't prepare anyone for anything.
MarkB
Legend
Neither does ignoring actual issues.
No one said anything about ignoring issues.
Necropolitan
Hero
When exactly are the benefits going to arrive?
How exactly is this not the same scam as crypto-currencies, NFTs, etc.? Especially when it's the same exact people involved in all three of those?
Right now AI research involves mass theft of intellectual property and it's resulted in a proliferation of cheating tools, disinformation (both active like the above example and how it's massively increased the amount of fake news/images/videos that can be put out), and filling up the internet with endless word vomit that it then proceeds to devour to make more.
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