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.

  • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    this is the stupidest shit ever we literally have google and still need teachers

    also the primary purpose of the modern education system is babysitting

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

      And google is becoming less and less useful, rapdily, because of the sheer amount of SEO crap choking the internet. Apparently GPT-3 is already vulnerable to being fed text generated by other algorithmic text generators, meaning it's being fed semantically empty garbage. And that problem will likely just accelerate as the available sources of text become more and more contaminated with AI garbage. and, of course, new AI garbage can be created much faster than humans can type...

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        That recipe you want to share won't be seen by many people unless it is a SEO compliant pretentious life changing epiphany autobiographical story with a recipe hidden in it. :so-true:

        • TyMan210 [he/him, comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          Where you scroll until you think you've reached the bottom of the page, past the third row of banner ads, and only then do you encounter the actual normally formatted recipe

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      also the primary purpose of the modern education system is babysitting

      That's how the ruling class wants it and makes it more and more the reality "reform" after "reform." :capitalist-laugh:

      • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        hence why I said modern.

        also again this isn't even solving a new problem we now have a new way for people with an internet connection to find out information by typing questions. It's been done

    • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      the primary purpose of the modern education system is babysitting

      :astronaut-2: :astronaut-1:

      The people who do well were always the exception. The vast majority of people are never able to retain anything they learned from highschool. Even college isn't that much better, unless you are lucky to have a job closely related to R&D you'll inevitably re-learn most of what you need on the job.