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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

Jun 7

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 Jun 7 OP

There would be no time to do the ordinary reading, thinking, studying, living of student life bucolic_frolic Jun 7 #1

I couldn't agree more! SheltieLover Jun 7 #2

This will destroy education - except for teaching students to use bots and become dependent on them. highplainsdem Jun 7 #4

Why would any school agree to this? SheltieLover Jun 7 #3

Part of it is FOMO - fear of missing out on using AI as fast as the AI companies say you have to highplainsdem Jun 7 #5

I've already personally heard from people that that've lost jobs to ai. SheltieLover Jun 7 #12

there's through the roof risk/reward on this cadoman Jun 7 #10

That's how Zuckerberg made his first million ... FakeNoose Jun 7 #6

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

We're seeing a con job. They're peddling badly flawed tech. This is not progress. Or toothpaste. highplainsdem Jun 7 #8

Strongly disagree Lucky Luciano Jun 7 #9

What do you use those bots for? highplainsdem Jun 7 #11

Mostly to improve coding or get to the point on some mathematical concepts I want clarity on. Lucky Luciano Jun 7 #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 Jun 7 #16

Yes it can give incorrect results or partially correct results. Critical thinking is still required indeed. Lucky Luciano Jun 7 #17

Never mind. I found one of your earlier pro-AI posts. highplainsdem Jun 7 #14

Yup...Google does a decent job of using LLMs for this sort of thing. Lucky Luciano Jun 7 #15

Even before AI, I could feel myself "dumbing down" due to technology JustABozoOnThisBus Jun 8 #20

Regulate. Motherfucking. AI. Karasu Jun 8 #18

reading, writing, reasoning, critical thinking, social skills, memory, learning, creativity -- will become orleans Jun 8 #19