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.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I've already been told by a smug treat defender that human beings have only as much or less value than the machines and software replacing them right now and having any objection to :porky-happy: 's theft and exploitation of labor (yes, that includes artists) is emotional and against materialism(tm).

    • mittens [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      do they realize that if they don't control the automatic treat machine, they're going to go without treats. that's, of course, assuming the treat machine works and doesn't output a bunch of nonsense to begin with.

    • FlintstoneSpiceLatte [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      human beings have only as much or less value than the machines and software replacing them right now

      And leftists are the misanthropes?