Anonymous A started this discussion 17 hours ago#139,276
So everyone knows modern educational systems are modeled after the Prussian educational system which was developed to essentially turn people into obedient loyal workers/soldiers but this makes me wonder about what's happening in classrooms right now. What kind of nation are we building now that kids are having laptops with AI shoved in their faces? Are we just conditioning them to accept AI as normal and to relinquish their agency to it? More than that, are we conditioning them to be reliant on AI with no skills to pursue the acquisition and application of knowledge otherwise?
Anonymous A (OP) double-posted this 17 hours ago, 2 minutes later[^][v]#1,471,822
Imagine how effective this system would be at controlling the minds of an entire nation. You could just pay AI companies for access to the national consciousness. Damn, sales are down! Johnson pay Elon Musk to insert subtle ads into all AI responses for the next month! You say buy they buy you say jump they jump. Drones
Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 17 hours ago, 2 minutes later, 8 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,471,824
Unless it develops the other way, it all depends on if people are preoccupied with the establishment of a functional government that can influence things for the better. It requires something more than people preoccupied with the skin color of people in Mississippi.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 17 hours ago, 31 seconds later, 8 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,471,825
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🍋 joined in and replied with this 9 hours ago, 8 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,471,941
@previous (C)
Personally, I’d never cite an LLM as a source. They’re okay for things you don’t need to be 100% sure about. Whenever I’ve taken science courses in university taught by professors who are actively doing research, I’ve found that the scientific accuracy of LLMs is pretty bad.
I think if LLMs are used in school it should be to teach kids about LLMs not to teach kids using LLMs.
🍋 double-posted this 9 hours ago, 2 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,471,942
If you think about how an LLM works, you make it smarter by training it on more data. But that results in it producing the most common answer people would give. Which is not sufficient.
🍋 triple-posted this 9 hours ago, 2 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,471,943
I did notice there is a strong push to get rid of technology in the classroom because apparently it’s expensive and kids get distracted and end up not learning.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 8 hours ago, 15 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,471,946
@1,471,940 (C)
Would you shut the hell up with that "it's not the tech it's the people" bullshit? You could say the same shit about guns, nukes, pitbulls, etc. People are still going to associate those things with negative outcomes especially when they're used negatively.
🍋 double-posted this 8 hours ago, 2 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,471,955
My own thought is AI doesn’t have to be bad, it’s just that the people with the means to produce AI models are greedy wealthy people, so that’s what it gets used for. If our focus was on say, helping medical researchers discover new cancer treatments that would be good. But no they just want to replace you so they don’t have to pay your salary and all that other cancer stuff is just marketing.
🍋 replied with this 8 hours ago, 2 minutes later, 9 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,471,971
@previous (C)
I know how that feature works underneath and the way it’s presented in the UI is misleading. LLMs do not contain information about where they got information from. It’s the other way around. So I don’t trust that.