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This will sound trite, but I wonder whether there's a lesson here to be learned about human education. We put a great deal of effort into educating our childre

This will sound trite, but I wonder whether there's a lesson here to be learned about human education. We put a great deal of effort into educating our children in language and math, to the extent that those form the major branches of our standardized testing for college admissions tests (where they are still used). We treat them as separate subjects, perhaps for good reason, as we also do science and geography and art and music. Can ChatGPT's successes and shortcomings give us insight into how we should or should not educate our own progeny?

abitnegative 4y ago
Are you asking if we should just teach kids language and hope that they learn math, science, geography, art, and music as a side effect?
tkgally 4y ago
That doesn’t sound trite to me at all. ChatGTP raises major issues for the future of education in many areas, and discussions about how to deal with them have just begun.
- 2devnull 4y ago
  It will obsolete essay writing or make cheating more of a problem. This may be good. Multiple choice tests will be favored over things like term papers, which are basically meaningless as of now. This will favor general intelligence (iq) at least until there are interface advances like supposedly neurolink or wearables, at which point iq will matter less and big five traits much more. That would be beautiful in many ways, but a major inflection point for humans; no more elites. A great leveling may reduce violence and oppression, and increase prosperity across the globe.
ForHackernews 4y ago
I doubt it. Humans are not ML models, and AI "neural networks" are not that much like a brain. I guess it can get philosophical quickly, but people are very quick to read too much into a fancy text-generation tool. We talk about it "learning" but it can't really learn anything, because it is not an entity with agency. It takes an input and responds with an output. I'm not saying it's not impressive, but it is manifestly nothing like a mind.

abitnegative 4y ago

Are you asking if we should just teach kids language and hope that they learn math, science, geography, art, and music as a side effect?

tkgally 4y ago

That doesn’t sound trite to me at all. ChatGTP raises major issues for the future of education in many areas, and discussions about how to deal with them have just begun.

2devnull 4y ago
It will obsolete essay writing or make cheating more of a problem. This may be good. Multiple choice tests will be favored over things like term papers, which are basically meaningless as of now. This will favor general intelligence (iq) at least until there are interface advances like supposedly neurolink or wearables, at which point iq will matter less and big five traits much more. That would be beautiful in many ways, but a major inflection point for humans; no more elites. A great leveling may reduce violence and oppression, and increase prosperity across the globe.

ForHackernews 4y ago

I doubt it. Humans are not ML models, and AI "neural networks" are not that much like a brain. I guess it can get philosophical quickly, but people are very quick to read too much into a fancy text-generation tool. We talk about it "learning" but it can't really learn anything, because it is not an entity with agency. It takes an input and responds with an output. I'm not saying it's not impressive, but it is manifestly nothing like a mind.