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Not @niknah and I’m gonna guess they think it’s the coming lord and saviour. But it will be a part of technology going forward so kids should be taught what it is and isn’t.

It’s a cross between Siri and predictive text. It guesses and makes up things in an authoritative voice. So kids / people need to be taught not to trust it.

It’s basically a blender of the entire internet. It’ll just as likely tell you the pyramids were built by aliens because there are more words on the internet written about that then about the actual construction. Ask about any notable historical figure mainly known by their last name and their accomplishment and it’ll make up a random first name and fictional biography about them. Because all it’s doing is making sentences/paragraphs/stories from their component parts weighted by other words that are likely to go near them.

It’s not going to cure cancer or even write a Wikipedia article correctly, but it might actually do fictional writers out of a job.

In the workplace & business everyone will be competing against others who are using it. You'll be unproductive / uncreative living in the past if you don't know how to use it as well as others. It's not as simple as google search, it's a conversation where you can add things into the results.

They could do away with the old "how much can you remember" type tests all together and grade by people's practical skills with using real world tools.

You can't put the genie back in the bottle.

You're going to be better off getting to educate students about the tools. How easy it can be to get them to generate fake data, how to actually use the tools to help improve understanding, how to avoid relying on them to much.

As an example: I was messing around with chatgpt months ago and talked it into creating a counter to the theory of general relativity called the theory of specific relativity. To many, including myself, it had enough BS to be at least partially plausible.

There are going to be students who just use AI generated content inappropriately (writing full assignments) regardless. Cheaters are going to cheat. Cheaters who wanted to could already just pay someone else to do assignments for them for grades.

I also expect that we're going to see institutions change how they do exams and assignments to help solve the issues that mass available AI creates.

People said similar things about electronic calculators when they were first produced en-mass. Yet maths survived as a subject.