They just keep coming up with even dumber ideas.
Sigh… my university has seen a jump in admisson marks the last few years, and every semester we have 30-50 students turfed out for generative AI assignments handed in. They even leave “generated by ChatGPT” in the text. Most courses are ending digital testing and reverting back to paper quizes and exams, because the cheating is getting worse, and easy to detect because we add in a bait question we know AI gets wrong.
Their high school teachers are telling them AI is the future. Tip for you kids: don’t take career advice from someone who ended up a high school teacher.
That’s a full 4-year degree in my area.
It’s a portable skill that my wife’s sister leveraged to move to Europe. She’s had a great life there.
For Advait Paliwal, Brown dropout and co-creator of Einstein, there isn’t one. “I think about horses,” he said. “They used to pull carriages, but when cars came around, I’d argue horses became a lot more free,”
No, they didn’t become more free. They became unnecessary and were sold by the millions for food. The peak of the horse population was just shy of 22 million animals around 1910 and has fallen to 2 million today.
This guy’s an idiot, who would relegate millions of people to ignorance and ultimately irrelevance as they are left behind in greater numbers in an economy that demands ever more amounts of actual intelligence to thrive in.
Jesus, what a fool.
Perhaps he should go to school.
Perhaps he should go to school.
Ha! Stay in school, kids, or you’ll end up like this chump.
Wait really? For a window of time, we had horse meat on the menu?
Sold overseas, absolutely. Domestically, it’s been a more… controversial subject. https://priceonomics.com/when-americans-ate-horse-meat/
Horse leather (shell cordovan specifically) was for years used to make police belts and holsters - it’s heavier than cow leather and more supple.
I think you can buy a horse steak in most western countries, although most regular grocery stores don’t carry it. You’d need to go to a butcher or a higher end store.
I bought a cut of horse steak in Norway around 2005. I haven’t really looked for it since, so I don’t know if they stopped selling it. It’s often mixed into sausages as well, but labeled in a less obvious way.
Still do in tons of places!
Had…?
Right? I’ve had moose, bear, cow, caribou, octopus, squid, chicken, deer, roadkill, pig and sheep. I’ve been responsible for more animal deaths than a PETA animal shelter. I’d try the horse and then I’d only need reindeer to complete the punch card and I get some puma or screech owls or something …right?
Sis is a teach and she tells me she used to let her kids listen to music when doin quiet work but had to stop because too many were using chatgpt
Fuck ai
why bother to go through a sexual awakening when your fleshlight can just date her vibrator ?
why bother to get a license when i can call a robotaxi ?
why bother to exist because A.I. can do that for me ?
That middle one kind of sticks out. Seems perfectly valid if your usually walking/biking/using public transportation.
You can still get a license in case you do need to drive a car. A license is not an obligation to buy a car.
This! There are probably gonna be times where you need to drive to get someone somewhere in a hurry. Cannot speak for everywhere, but in my part of the world the police won’t care if you are speeding to get someone to hospital, you’ll still get a ticket, minimum, without license.
Waymos are often controlled remotely by human drivers who don’t have US licenses.
The US license is pretty much worthless anyway
The first one was ripped off from Zizek. The second one is because you have to ask WAYMO for permission for access to a vehicle.
Still not sure what you are getting at. With sex and existing, those are themselves the goal, so having a machine do it for you makes no sense. With driving, getting from A to B is the goal, not the act of driving itself, which makes calling a normal cab or a robo-taxi both equally valid ways of achieving the goal if you don’t want to drive.
Oh no! AI! Experience this dramatic irony for me!
Really hate the framing of the title, though the article is a bit more nuanced. AI may be able to “do your homework” in the same way a robot may be able to “eat your dinner”, but it cannot do these things for you, only independent of you. No one can “do your homework for you” because the point of homework is to help you understand the information through exercise. Saying it’s done because all questions were answered is like saying you had dinner because a robot removed the food from your plate. You are not getting the actual point of the exercise, the way you’re not getting the nutrition from the food. You can argue about how helpful/nutritious the work/food is, but to argue that the work/food is not necessary is a blatant lie told to you by people trying to starve you.
This idea that “memorizing things is bad” and that memorizing can be offloaded comes from a fundamental misunderstanding of education. In order to understand things we have to know certain things. Even first had experiences are “committed to memory” so that you can draw from that information later. These people are attempting to rob others of an education and the ability to understand the world around them. I don’t know how they can live with themselves.
This seems like the same argument people had with calculators. We’ve had calculators, spreadsheets, cash registers for half a century now so why do the still teach math?
Notably, these are the same people that drink Soylent.
I had originally written a Soylent reference but thought it too niche so removed it. Notable indeed.
There’s a difference between knowing things and memorizing them, though.
I agree on the broad notion that using reference is perfectly fine at all levels of academia. You memorize information by putting it to use. Repetitive reading with no application intended just for memorization is a massive waste of time.
That is fundamentally different to attending lectures, reading books or paper and definitely not the same as putting in the work of writing your own or doing your own research.
My concern with this idea is the same as my concern with every other attempt at a “disruptive” AI product: you can already do all the valuable parts of this with existing tools and the novel things this can do aren’t particularly useful or something that chatbots do well.
By all means use AI tools to do schoolworks if and when they’re useful. It’s just that this doesn’t sound like it is.
Though I think your first point is mostly semantics, I do it’s ok if some things are expected to be memorized. What do you mean by:
Repetitive reading with no application intended just for memorization is a massive waste of time.
Is the class and test not the intended application? I bet most people who learn about DNA or Golgi bodies never apply that information outside of school. Most people who took an art history class had to learn about cubism and likely haven’t uttered the word since. What about the difference between igneous and sedimentary rock? I think these classes are important, but you cannot expect people to have the time to build up an understanding of all of these subjects from first principles. At a certain point you have to memorize something. Even if you went to a volcano and watched the magma cool yourself, you’d still have to remember what the result is called. If a student can define a term and identify it in action when they see it, I don’t think they need to have done any original research on it, and most coursework (lectures/videos/homework) gives them the tools to be able to define and identify it. It’s about exposure and exploration, and for that kind of surface level understanding I think the coursework for most classes counts as sufficient “putting in the work”.
What does useful mean in this context:
By all means use AI tools to do schoolworks if and when they’re useful
My point is that they are not useful because they don’t help you learn the material. What is the “valuable part of this”? It literally just does the work for them. AI repeatedly makes factual errors, so I wouldn’t even trust it to rephrase something, much less teach it to me, especially when there are a lot of trustworthy educational tools and sites out there.
My first semester of college was in the fall of 2005. One of the courses I took that semester was titled Western Civilization. Basically a repeat of high school World History, “white people evolved and did everything, and some other people were around I guess” kind of stuff. We get a couple weeks into the semester when the teacher just…stops showing up. We walk in to find “Read Chapters 1-3 in your textbook” written on the board. He’s gone for over a month, occasionally there’s a substitute who has no fucking idea what’s going on, I think they got someone from Financial Aid or the Registrar’s office to walk in and tell us to read chapters of the book in person. Practically no attempt to teach this class was made. Turns out, the professor was on some kind of emergency response team that got deployed to the gulf coast in aid of Katrina/Rita.
He gets back for the second half of the semester, and the way he reviewed for tests was “One: A. Two: C. Three: C. Four: B.”
This is what you’re afraid of automating away.
You know the really sick thing? I had to earn a flight instructor certificate before I realized what a piss poor state our schools are in.
This is what you’re afraid of automating away.
To work with the “robots can’t eat your dinner for you” analogy, what you’re doing here is you’re saying you went to a bad restaurant once therefore people shouldn’t bother cooking.
Look, I gave a single example out of brevity. I did ten semesters of college, every essay I’ve turned in was graded on formatting, punctuation, grammar, spelling and not factual accuracy, validity of research or strength of conclusions. Because doing that stuff is hard.
Multiple choice or short answer tests are easy to cram for and easy to grade. Basing curricula around them encourages cram-and-dump study methods that don’t encourage actual long-term learning. You end up with students who can do high level calculus or discuss the lasting ramifications of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo for a week or two. If AI makes it impossible to pretend we’re teaching students this way anymore, so much the better.
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This guy is a Republican, I guarantee it.
Republicans have been working hard for decades to sabotage education and dumb down the US population, because a dumb population is easier to control and manipulate. Whenever I see another “school is dumb” type post, it always ends with Republicans
Schooling in which you learn to do arithmetic, write reports, research and collaborate on projects will be replaced with reverse-centaur training, in which you are trained to respond to headset commands more quickly, preparing you to join the only remaining part of the workforce
The point of school is to learn stuff. Facts and methods. Teachers aren’t typically asking you to solve math problems or summarize a story because they need the answers.
