19th May 2023, 5:59 AM
(15th May 2023, 10:05 AM)Weltall Wrote:Quote:If they succeed there, then we'll have generations of badly taught kids who just keep the status quo.
Not a chance. Education, along with everything else, is about to be incredibly disrupted. Angry old dinosaurs thinking they can indoctrinate kids in the age of the internet and AI are pissing into the wind. The old 20th century style of educating classrooms full of kids has been sorely in need of replacing anyway, and angry old dinosaurs won't have any idea how to handle what comes next, let alone dictate how it will work. The future is coming at us very, very fast. Like I've been saying it would, since 2009. :)
I'm not convinced relying on kids just randomly roaming the net to get a rounded education is a valid replacement, because have you seen the internet? Those information silos are real and kids are especially susceptible to becoming trapped in one of them, whether it be some neo-nazi forum or flat earther groups or those "sovereign citizen" types screaming "I do not consent" while being arrested. AI itself is a danger as well. From finding better ways to lie to people and spread the lies in convincing ways across numerous sites (and manipulate search results to manufacture even more consensus), AI can be a tool of misinformation quickly.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)