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Until we understand the limitations of ChatGPT (see Stephen Wolfram's post), it is entirely premature to immediately begin identifying the ways in which learnin

Until we understand the limitations of ChatGPT (see Stephen Wolfram's post), it is entirely premature to immediately begin identifying the ways in which learning should change. Seth is posting a rant against essay writing. As a millenial (who saw the advent of the internet change school curriculum), I know that our workload became more intense after internet became more pervasive. Before it would take a trip to the library to write a paper. Now, we were doing 4 times as many papers and consuming 4 times as much information, making us X times(!) smarter than our predecessors. And we changed the rules of the workplace dramatically. (We were usually just as competent, if not more competent, as the more senior people in the office. & We were usually underestimated.) AI is going to do the same to education. It is not going to make children less capable of writing, but far more capable of writing. Children are literally going to go over AI generated information and make it better. I should start fearing the next gen of young adults. I am going to be just as outdated as the boomers are today.

stcroixx 4y ago
And we changed the rules of the workplace dramatically. (We were usually just as competent, if not more competent, as the more senior people in the office. & We were usually underestimated.) I hope this is a joke.
- nashashmi 4y ago
  It isn’t. And I don’t mean better from a woke agenda perspective. I mean technically better with stronger work capabilities. We used to lack in the experience game 15 years ago. But that has changed now. https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2019/02/14/millennial-life-how-young-adulthood-today-compares-with-prior-generations-2/ https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2019/02/14/millenn... https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/06/what-can-we-learn-from-millennials/ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/06/what-can-we-learn-fro... https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/05/how-old-school-management-kills-work-culture/ https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/05/how-old-school-management-... https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/20/hold-up-millennials-we-dogs-still-know-a-few-tricks/ https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/20/hold-up-millennials-we-dog... https://techcrunch.com/2015/06/27/the-millennial-delusion/ https://techcrunch.com/2015/06/27/the-millennial-delusion/
  - stcroixx 4y ago
    Seriously? 4 op-eds and some general demographic stats? Still not quite convinced there's a super generation.

stcroixx 4y ago

And we changed the rules of the workplace dramatically. (We were usually just as competent, if not more competent, as the more senior people in the office. & We were usually underestimated.) I hope this is a joke.

nashashmi 4y ago
It isn’t. And I don’t mean better from a woke agenda perspective. I mean technically better with stronger work capabilities. We used to lack in the experience game 15 years ago. But that has changed now. https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2019/02/14/millennial-life-how-young-adulthood-today-compares-with-prior-generations-2/ https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2019/02/14/millenn... https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/06/what-can-we-learn-from-millennials/ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/06/what-can-we-learn-fro... https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/05/how-old-school-management-kills-work-culture/ https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/05/how-old-school-management-... https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/20/hold-up-millennials-we-dogs-still-know-a-few-tricks/ https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/20/hold-up-millennials-we-dog... https://techcrunch.com/2015/06/27/the-millennial-delusion/ https://techcrunch.com/2015/06/27/the-millennial-delusion/
- stcroixx 4y ago
  Seriously? 4 op-eds and some general demographic stats? Still not quite convinced there's a super generation.