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[-] osugi_sakae@midwest.social 7 points 1 day ago

Education is one area where GenAI is having a huge impact. Teachers work with text and language all day long. They have too much to do and not enough time to do it. Ideally, for example, they should "differentiate" for EACH and EVERY student. Of course that almost never happens, but second best is to differentiate for specific groups - students with IEPs (special ed), English Learners, maybe advanced / gifted.

More tech aware teachers are now using ChatGPT and friends to help them do this. They are (usually) subject area experts, so they can quickly read through a generated or modified text and fix or remove errors - hallucinations are less (ime) of an issue in this situation. Now, instead of one reading that only a few students can actually understand, they have three at different levels, each with their own DOK questions.

People have started saying "AI won't replace teachers. Teachers who use AI will replace teachers who don't."

Of course, it will be interesting to see what happens when VC funding dries up, and the AI companies can't afford to lose money on every single interaction. Like with everything else in USA education, better off districts may be able to afford AI, and less-well-off (aka black / brown / poor) districts may not be able to.

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 39 points 1 day ago

At a beach restaurant the other night I kept hearing a loud American voice cut across all conversation, going on and on about “AI” and how it would get into all human “workflows” (new buzzword?). His confidence and loudness was only matched by his obvious lack of understanding of how LLMs actually work.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago

"Confidently incorrect" I think describes a lot of AI aficionados.

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 14 points 1 day ago

And LLMs themselves.

[-] ameancow@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I would also add "hopeful delusionals" and "unhinged cultist" to that list of labels.

Seriously, we have people right now making their plans for what they're going to do with their lives once Artificial Super Intelligence emerges and changes the entire world to some kind of post-scarcity, Star-Trek world where literally everyone is wealthy and nobody has to work. They think this is only several years away. Not a tiny number either, and they exist on a broad spectrum.

Our species is so desperate for help from beyond, a savior that will change the current status-quo. We've been making fantasies and stories to indulge this desire for millenia and this is just the latest incarnation.

No company on Earth is going to develop any kind of machine or tool that will destabilize the economic markets of our capitalist world. A LOT has to change before anyone will even dream of upending centuries of wealth-building.

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[-] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 15 points 1 day ago

Some people can only hear "AI means I can pay people less/get rid of them entirely" and stop listening.

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[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

I'm buying semis. I don't see AI, construed broadly, as ever shrinking from its current position.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

You do you, but I think there's a good chance we see a pullback, followed by a pivot, followed by a more sustained rise. Basically, once investors realize AI can't deliver on the promises of the various marketing depts, they'll pull investment, and then some new tech or application will demonstrate sustained demand.

I think we're at that first crest, so I expect a pullback in the next few years. In short, I expect AI to experience something like what the Internet experienced at the turn of the millennium.

[-] 31337@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago

I'm loading up on vacuum tubes.

[-] ninth_plane@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

They make the LLM responses "warmer".

[-] spyd3r@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

I'm stocked up on obsolete media formats.

[-] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The hype of massive LLMs will die, but smaller companies in all sectors are only increasing the amount of GPUs they're buying.

[-] Furbag@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago
[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 2 points 22 hours ago

Based on the upcoming robot apocalypse, obviously.

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