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cadoman

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10. there's through the roof risk/reward on this

Reply to SheltieLover (Reply #3)

Sat Jun 7, 2025, 11:04 PM

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AI has the potential to give students highly individuated attention for as long as they like, at extremely low cost.

The risk is really in how the AI is managed. How trustworthy the operators of it are, what they intend to teach the kids. Really, similar risks as with humans but at larger scale.

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Welcome to Campus. Here's Your ChatGPT. [View all] highplainsdem Saturday OP

There would be no time to do the ordinary reading, thinking, studying, living of student life bucolic_frolic Saturday #1

I couldn't agree more! SheltieLover Saturday #2

This will destroy education - except for teaching students to use bots and become dependent on them. highplainsdem Saturday #4

Why would any school agree to this? SheltieLover Saturday #3

Part of it is FOMO - fear of missing out on using AI as fast as the AI companies say you have to highplainsdem Saturday #5

I've already personally heard from people that that've lost jobs to ai. SheltieLover Saturday #12

there's through the roof risk/reward on this cadoman Saturday #10

That's how Zuckerberg made his first million ... FakeNoose Saturday #6

The toothpaste isn't going back into the tube. Lucky Luciano Saturday #7

We're seeing a con job. They're peddling badly flawed tech. This is not progress. Or toothpaste. highplainsdem Saturday #8

Strongly disagree Lucky Luciano Saturday #9

What do you use those bots for? highplainsdem Saturday #11

Mostly to improve coding or get to the point on some mathematical concepts I want clarity on. Lucky Luciano Saturday #13

See reply 14, which I'd started writing before I got a phone call. I didn't see your reply here before I highplainsdem Saturday #16

Yes it can give incorrect results or partially correct results. Critical thinking is still required indeed. Lucky Luciano Saturday #17

Never mind. I found one of your earlier pro-AI posts. highplainsdem Saturday #14

Yup...Google does a decent job of using LLMs for this sort of thing. Lucky Luciano Saturday #15

Even before AI, I could feel myself "dumbing down" due to technology JustABozoOnThisBus Sunday #20

Regulate. Motherfucking. AI. Karasu Sunday #18

reading, writing, reasoning, critical thinking, social skills, memory, learning, creativity -- will become orleans Sunday #19