Excellent article. Thought provoking and having the same impact as when I read John Taylor Gatto say the same things about Prussian schooling way back when.
Good to see AI working, unstoppable, unfeeling, to cut the legs out of the school system. Alpha School ... thank you for putting that out there - what a great idea.
AI for learning is probably in the top 3 usecases for AI. Sure is number 1 for me. Right now most every intellectual activity has an absurd amount of learning overhead required that is getting bigger and bigger by the second. People don't want to go through it, they just want in on the action. AI will give them just that. After that learning becomes a lot easier.
I started a new job last month that required me to learn an absurd amount of image processing, that would have normally taken me a month to do and would have included reading a number of very boring technical books, the ones that usually take 3 or 4 chapters to get to the point, when you've already forgotten where you started. It took me about 2 days using AI to start doing my job. Frankly, if not for AI I'd probably have been fired.
The sooner it destroys credentialism, the better. Too many people lean on those pieces of paper without having really any individual thinking or genuine intellectual curiosity. It’s remarkable I once dreamed of being a college lecturer, but the more I got involved, the more I realised how stultifying the whole system was, and converged of course, and so I got as far away as I could. This AI will break some things, some of those things need to be replaced though, for the good of society.
I’m optimistic about AI but it’s incredibly dangerous, as internet allowed access to the world, knowledge and vices more easily. Now AI exponentially increase this, both for good and bad. You really need to be vigilant and assess what purpose your using this great tool for.
As I think it’s terrible easy to be lead astray these days
"The outmoded Prussian pedagogical model that has been dominant for the last 200 years is clearly inefficient, suboptimal, and totally incapable of providing the results expected by parents and required by society."
It's succeeded in breaking the minds of most people, as it was always intended to do. The number of k-12 graduates who really believe they are the opposite gender is proof enough of that.
AI tutoring is exciting, if for no other reason than getting rid of all the communist teachers brainwashing kids.
That's not what it was intended to do, except as part of the process. It was intended to turn people into perfect little worker bees, and it's obviously not even able to do that anymore.
UPDATE: Please note that this is not a debate society nor a place for Smart Boys to demonstrate that they know how to use Wikipedia. If you make an assertion and get called on it, leave it at that. The topic here is AI, not what some random guy once said about his theory of education.
"If you make an assertion and get called on it, leave it at that."
This is helpful. In the past I misunderstood that it was the form of engagement, ie long walls of text that you objected to. In the future I'll stick to the subject and refrain from responding to getting "called out."
Excellent article. Thought provoking and having the same impact as when I read John Taylor Gatto say the same things about Prussian schooling way back when.
Good to see AI working, unstoppable, unfeeling, to cut the legs out of the school system. Alpha School ... thank you for putting that out there - what a great idea.
AI for learning is probably in the top 3 usecases for AI. Sure is number 1 for me. Right now most every intellectual activity has an absurd amount of learning overhead required that is getting bigger and bigger by the second. People don't want to go through it, they just want in on the action. AI will give them just that. After that learning becomes a lot easier.
I started a new job last month that required me to learn an absurd amount of image processing, that would have normally taken me a month to do and would have included reading a number of very boring technical books, the ones that usually take 3 or 4 chapters to get to the point, when you've already forgotten where you started. It took me about 2 days using AI to start doing my job. Frankly, if not for AI I'd probably have been fired.
The sooner it destroys credentialism, the better. Too many people lean on those pieces of paper without having really any individual thinking or genuine intellectual curiosity. It’s remarkable I once dreamed of being a college lecturer, but the more I got involved, the more I realised how stultifying the whole system was, and converged of course, and so I got as far away as I could. This AI will break some things, some of those things need to be replaced though, for the good of society.
I’m optimistic about AI but it’s incredibly dangerous, as internet allowed access to the world, knowledge and vices more easily. Now AI exponentially increase this, both for good and bad. You really need to be vigilant and assess what purpose your using this great tool for.
As I think it’s terrible easy to be lead astray these days
The coward dies a thousand deaths...
Certainly it is very easy to get lazy and rely too much upon AI. But it's even easier to get lazy and get absolutely nothing done.
"The outmoded Prussian pedagogical model that has been dominant for the last 200 years is clearly inefficient, suboptimal, and totally incapable of providing the results expected by parents and required by society."
It's succeeded in breaking the minds of most people, as it was always intended to do. The number of k-12 graduates who really believe they are the opposite gender is proof enough of that.
AI tutoring is exciting, if for no other reason than getting rid of all the communist teachers brainwashing kids.
That's not what it was intended to do, except as part of the process. It was intended to turn people into perfect little worker bees, and it's obviously not even able to do that anymore.
UPDATE: Please note that this is not a debate society nor a place for Smart Boys to demonstrate that they know how to use Wikipedia. If you make an assertion and get called on it, leave it at that. The topic here is AI, not what some random guy once said about his theory of education.
Understood.
"If you make an assertion and get called on it, leave it at that."
This is helpful. In the past I misunderstood that it was the form of engagement, ie long walls of text that you objected to. In the future I'll stick to the subject and refrain from responding to getting "called out."
The world will somehow survive..Probably like in Dune they will ban thinking machines.
The Germans already place a hugh emphasis on their school grades on oral exams. This may spread.
In a society under our own control, I could see this happening quickly.