Re:ChatGPT, the Abacus, and Education
by xg15 on Friday December 09, 2022 @01:49PM
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Sorry, that sounds awfully nihilist to me. No, I'm not terribly excited in becoming an expert for the latest API or framework either, but I'm very interested in understanding how the world around us works. There are also some skills I'm proud to have and others I'd like to have.
I share the worry of the article that AI might become the ultimate competitive artifact: Make us able to realise any idea on a whim, while at the same time making it actually harder to gain a deeper understanding of something or acquire a skill. In that world, everyone will basically become a pure consumer.
It's not the only path a world with AI could take, but it's one that I worry is quite likely. And I don't think this would make anything better.
At least I don't support the notion that as soon as you have a child, the entire rest of the world stops being relevant. First of all, that sounds horrible, secondly, not everyone will have kids.
> a world where children, helped with AI tools, can learn whatever they want - as an innate ability? curiosity?
That would be a better vision. I read in some other thread that at some point we all might get personal assistants that go with us through life like some non-imaginary imaginary friend. I think this could actually be awesome.
I share the worry of the article that AI might become the ultimate competitive artifact: Make us able to realise any idea on a whim, while at the same time making it actually harder to gain a deeper understanding of something or acquire a skill. In that world, everyone will basically become a pure consumer.
It's not the only path a world with AI could take, but it's one that I worry is quite likely. And I don't think this would make anything better.
At least I don't support the notion that as soon as you have a child, the entire rest of the world stops being relevant. First of all, that sounds horrible, secondly, not everyone will have kids.
> a world where children, helped with AI tools, can learn whatever they want - as an innate ability? curiosity?
That would be a better vision. I read in some other thread that at some point we all might get personal assistants that go with us through life like some non-imaginary imaginary friend. I think this could actually be awesome.