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Um... I just had like a 20 minute conversation with ChatGPT about the history of modern physics. If I had this shit as a tutor during high school and college.... OMG.I think we can basically re-invent the concept of education at scale. College as we know it will cease to exist.— Peter Wang (@pwang) December 4, 2022

Today's manmade horror: Bazingas on twitter are amazed that glorified chatbots like GPT-3 can produce readable text that is nominally about whatever topic you request. Say they just spent 20 minutes learning about physics. Say that this makes all existing forms of education obsolete. Say that teachers are no longer needed.

Directly below this someone else posted a prolonged dialogue where the GPT-3 bot calmly explained why a peregrine falcon is the worlds fastest marine mammal. When corrected it said that the sailfish is the fastest marine mammal, explaining that sailfish are warm blooded and have fur.

Bazingas think they can replace teachers (and everything else) with their half-baked machine learning systems because they're so ignorant and uneducated about anything outside their direct field of expertise that they don't actually know what any other disciplines do, or why they do what they do, or even how to evaluate when they're being fed bad knowledge.

Link for dunking.

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Bazingas will go on and on about how terrible education is, blissfully unaware that billionaire tech bros have been leading the attack to defund schools for decades. A substantial part of the reason education in the US is such a shitshow is that guys like Gates have been working very hard for a very long time to cut everything out of public education but STEM so they can use the public education system as their own private factory for producing docile, ignorant code-monkeys. STEM zombies have no fucking idea because they've never been introduced to anything more challenging than math problems, all the while being told what good, smart monkeys they are and how impressive it is that they know everything there is to know, unlike those foolish liberal arts majors with their books and history and mushy problems that can't be reduced to an algorithm.