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.
People don't talk about the war on educators enough. I guess when literally everything else is going to shit it just fades into the background.
Way too many people, including on Hexbear, have the "teachers are just glorified babysitters and deserve contempt and less pay and no benefits because Mrs. Meanface was mean to me in 9th Grade" crabs-in-a-bucket attitude. :doomer:
We should fire Mrs. Meanface though, children deserve better, if you hate children you should not be allowed to be a teacher.
I'm not really supporting Mrs. Meanface and her grudge against kids as much as I'm saying further dismantling public education out of spite of Mrs. Meanface is only going to make things worse.
i absolutely agree, and add that mrs meanface does a disservice to every good teacher out there, when education is not liberating the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor.
True, unfortunately that's just the way it's set up. Not gonna get too many qualified applicants, with over-filled and under-funded classrooms, uninvolved parents, garbage pay and benefits, the very real possibility of being MURDERED(!?) on the clock, greedy and negligent administration... I can go on and on but you get my point.
Contempt for Mrs. Meanface and retaliatory "reform" advocacy only makes for more Mrs. Meanfaces because those are the people that are willing to put up with bad pay and poor working conditions because at the very least they can punch down at kids.
Good point tankie, but Mrs. Meanface made me read my love note to Jessica in social studies in front of the whole class! So I ask you who's the real victim here?
It's very deliberate. It's become self fulfilling now.
Gotta starve that beast!
People talk about it all the time, they've just chosen to fight on behalf of the Tech Billionaires and Neoliberal austerity fetishists and Christian Fascists who are trying to destroy education. So many people have no awareness that the total destruction of public education in the US is a decades long campaign that started no later than Desegregation. Home schooling? Cutting arts and humanities? Cutting the machine shops and the art studios and the theater department. Cutting out nurses and support staff? Cutting teacher pay to the fucking bone. Standardized tests implemented for the profits of the standardized test companies? STEM STEM STEM STEM STEM STEM STEM? Prayer in schools, book bans, all this Christian fascist bullshit?
Education has been assassinated and most people have no idea.