They just keep coming up with even dumber ideas.
For Advait Paliwal, Brown dropout and co-creator of Einstein, there isn’t one. “I think about horses,” he said. “They used to pull carriages, but when cars came around, I’d argue horses became a lot more free,”
No, they didn’t become more free. They became unnecessary and were sold by the millions for food. The peak of the horse population was just shy of 22 million animals around 1910 and has fallen to 2 million today.
This guy’s an idiot, who would relegate millions of people to ignorance and ultimately irrelevance as they are left behind in greater numbers in an economy that demands ever more amounts of actual intelligence to thrive in.
Jesus, what a fool.
Wait really? For a window of time, we had horse meat on the menu?
Still do in tons of places!
Sold overseas, absolutely. Domestically, it’s been a more… controversial subject. https://priceonomics.com/when-americans-ate-horse-meat/
Horse leather (shell cordovan specifically) was for years used to make police belts and holsters - it’s heavier than cow leather and more supple.
It can still found in some places in France. It’s quite good, a bit like beef with less fat.
Had…?
I think you can buy a horse steak in most western countries, although most regular grocery stores don’t carry it. You’d need to go to a butcher or a higher end store.
I bought a cut of horse steak in Norway around 2005. I haven’t really looked for it since, so I don’t know if they stopped selling it. It’s often mixed into sausages as well, but labeled in a less obvious way.
Perhaps he should go to school.
why bother to go through a sexual awakening when your fleshlight can just date her vibrator ?
why bother to get a license when i can call a robotaxi ?
why bother to exist because A.I. can do that for me ?
Oh no! AI! Experience this dramatic irony for me!
Sigh… my university has seen a jump in admisson marks the last few years, and every semester we have 30-50 students turfed out for generative AI assignments handed in. They even leave “generated by ChatGPT” in the text. Most courses are ending digital testing and reverting back to paper quizes and exams, because the cheating is getting worse, and easy to detect because we add in a bait question we know AI gets wrong.
Their high school teachers are telling them AI is the future. Tip for you kids: don’t take career advice from someone who ended up a high school teacher.
I know several teachers, they’re doing an important and increasingly difficult/thankless job. Fuck you.
I have former teachers that screamed at me for saying “typing is the future” wanting to relegate art classes to be a few lessons of how to prompt AI image generators. Just like how handwriting strengthens a lot of other skills (usually fine motor ones), art is also good at auxiliary skills. Of course it can be done wrong (Kodály method is infamous for reverse teaching to “force kids to count more”), but that doesn’t invalidate it, and I personally hated writing for uncomfortable pencils and bad holding methods (was instructed to hold on the tapered off position “for better control” as strongly as possible).
Really hate the framing of the title, though the article is a bit more nuanced. AI may be able to “do your homework” in the same way a robot may be able to “eat your dinner”, but it cannot do these things for you, only independent of you. No one can “do your homework for you” because the point of homework is to help you understand the information through exercise. Saying it’s done because all questions were answered is like saying you had dinner because a robot removed the food from your plate. You are not getting the actual point of the exercise, the way you’re not getting the nutrition from the food. You can argue about how helpful/nutritious the work/food is, but to argue that the work/food is not necessary is a blatant lie told to you by people trying to starve you.
This idea that “memorizing things is bad” and that memorizing can be offloaded comes from a fundamental misunderstanding of education. In order to understand things we have to know certain things. Even first had experiences are “committed to memory” so that you can draw from that information later. These people are attempting to rob others of an education and the ability to understand the world around them. I don’t know how they can live with themselves.
Notably, these are the same people that drink Soylent.
I had originally written a Soylent reference but thought it too niche so removed it. Notable indeed.
This seems like the same argument people had with calculators. We’ve had calculators, spreadsheets, cash registers for half a century now so why do the still teach math?
My first semester of college was in the fall of 2005. One of the courses I took that semester was titled Western Civilization. Basically a repeat of high school World History, “white people evolved and did everything, and some other people were around I guess” kind of stuff. We get a couple weeks into the semester when the teacher just…stops showing up. We walk in to find “Read Chapters 1-3 in your textbook” written on the board. He’s gone for over a month, occasionally there’s a substitute who has no fucking idea what’s going on, I think they got someone from Financial Aid or the Registrar’s office to walk in and tell us to read chapters of the book in person. Practically no attempt to teach this class was made. Turns out, the professor was on some kind of emergency response team that got deployed to the gulf coast in aid of Katrina/Rita.
He gets back for the second half of the semester, and the way he reviewed for tests was “One: A. Two: C. Three: C. Four: B.”
This is what you’re afraid of automating away.
You know the really sick thing? I had to earn a flight instructor certificate before I realized what a piss poor state our schools are in.
This is what you’re afraid of automating away.
To work with the “robots can’t eat your dinner for you” analogy, what you’re doing here is you’re saying you went to a bad restaurant once therefore people shouldn’t bother cooking.
Look, I gave a single example out of brevity. I did ten semesters of college, every essay I’ve turned in was graded on formatting, punctuation, grammar, spelling and not factual accuracy, validity of research or strength of conclusions. Because doing that stuff is hard.
Multiple choice or short answer tests are easy to cram for and easy to grade. Basing curricula around them encourages cram-and-dump study methods that don’t encourage actual long-term learning. You end up with students who can do high level calculus or discuss the lasting ramifications of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo for a week or two. If AI makes it impossible to pretend we’re teaching students this way anymore, so much the better.
Sis is a teach and she tells me she used to let her kids listen to music when doin quiet work but had to stop because too many were using chatgpt
Fuck ai
Schooling in which you learn to do arithmetic, write reports, research and collaborate on projects will be replaced with reverse-centaur training, in which you are trained to respond to headset commands more quickly, preparing you to join the only remaining part of the workforce
The point of school is to learn stuff. Facts and methods. Teachers aren’t typically asking you to solve math problems or summarize a story because they need the answers.
