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.

  • 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.