Re:GPT-4o
by jasondigitized on Monday May 13, 2024 @10:16PM
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Why can’t it also inspire you? If I can forgo advertising and have ChatGPT tutor my child on geometry and they actually learn it at a fraction of the cost of a human tutor why is that bothersome? Honest question. Why do some many people default to something sinister going on. If this technology shows real efficacy in education at scale take my money.
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Because it is obviously going to be used to manipulate people. There is absolutely 0 doubt about that (and if there is I'd love to hear your reasoning). The fact that it will be used to teach geometry is great. But how many good things does a technology need to do before the emotional manipulation becomes worth it?
Re:GPT-4o
by SubiculumCode on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @12:50AM
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One may also begin to ask, what's the point of learning geometry? Or anything, anymore?
I don't think OpenAI is doing anything particularly sinister. But whatever OpenAI has today a bad actor will have in October. This horseshit is moving rather fast. Sorry, but in two years going from failing the turing test to being able to have a conversation with an AI agent nearly indistinguishable from a person is going to be destabilizing.
Start telling Grandma never to answer the phone.
Re:GPT-4o
by trashtester on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @06:07AM
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AI is going to be fantastic at teaching skills to students that those students may never need, since the AI will be able to do all the work that requires such skills, and do them faster, cheaper and at a higher level of quality.
I've read HN for a long time before registering. I might be mistaken but it does feel as though the sentiment here is starting to look more like the so called tech or science reddit subs. ie. tech-sceptical, anti-capitalism, doomer.
Obviously one needs to be aware of the downsides of tech and the downsides of large corporate manipulation, but if you had no awareness of the outside world and could only infer it from these sort of comments, you'd assume we were all living terrible lives.