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.
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!