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 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.