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Luddites said it first

The irony of machine learning turning into this GenAI monstrosity is that it would be wonderful to have a tutor who can check my work while I self-learn at times when teachers need sleep. Instead GenAI is not only disenfranchising educators, but creating "diseducation" systems for experts.

*UC Irvine, my phone is hyper UKing universities now 🥲

Maybe useful, especially if you want to argue against this nonsense bsky.app/profile/oliv...

The good news is we can fix it with ketamine

I'm just at a small city college. Best students coming in are from local community colleges. Our local high schools are graduating folk who should not be graduating. Worse of the worse are homeschooled students, with some rich homeschooled kids doing vastly better.

That certainly sounds credible.

Nepotisming their way into a job. They know that one too

Likely someone has this skill at some time, but it got lost way before the LLM

Shouldn't be startling... Everyone was warned that we were headed this way. First comedically, then satirically, then realistically, now alarmingly. Over the course of at least the last two decades.

AI: not even once

charlesblattberg.substack.com/p/universiti...

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My young (music) pupils get subjected to all sorts of philosophical musings from me, and I'm glad to say they do seem receptive to the 'hole in the brain' metaphor. It's the 'struggle to understand' where the learning happens, not in getting the end result.

Deep understanding is based on the whole messy process of finding a wide range of relevant sources to contemplate, extracting the underlying thread from them, then getting that thread down on paper in a cogent form. Each step is crucial to for the essential 'scaffolding of understanding'.

So our society is going to be destroyed by this cognito hazard. Fun.

Obvious, surely? If I learn something, sure, it takes me longer than asking the bot (assuming for a moment that I get a straight answer), but then I have that skill for next time — and for adjacent situations where I can extrapolate.

I'm not sure they had many skills to begin with.

You’re a retired Floridian. Your background is in getting drunk at a golf course and being racist.

You're now doing a mix of this one bsky.app/profile/oliv... Annddd....

I know you were really badly hurt by not taking the internet seriously early enough but you will not fix that mistake by fixating on LLMs like they’re internet 2. All you’re doing is looking ridiculous arguing with academics about the virtues of asbestos 2.

“AI isn’t going away” is the same shit NFT bros said. 😏

you are uncritically accepting and endorsing AI here your question contains a massive and unproven assumption it takes absolute faith to turn that into a fact

But they still do learn long division. Why did you claim they didn’t?