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Will humanity finally be liberated from memorization? Forcing school children to memorize and then regurgitate facts is barbaric, and so is using it as a measur
by fdgsdfogijq 4y ago
Will humanity finally be liberated from memorization? Forcing school children to memorize and then regurgitate facts is barbaric, and so is using it as a measure in hiring.
- boh 4y agoIt will, since there will be no job for you to interview or memorize for.
- tester756 4y agoI've always struggled to understand this perspective There's difference between being proficient and being able to Google stuff and unfortunately proficiency is desired.
- mobilefriendly 4y agoClearly you didn't learn the meaning of "barbaric". Memorization and mastery of vocabulary and multiplication factors are a base towards more advanced learning.
- danaris 4y agoIf you think that's all that's taught in a rote-memorization-and-regurgitation manner, then it's possible your experiences at school were wildly atypical...
- ghaff 4y agoOne can simultaneously agree that there's probably too much rote memorization in school while also thinking that some basic level of math skills including simple multiplication without a calculator, vocabulary, certain historical/scientific/civics/etc. facts, ability to at least print, etc. are important.
- soulofmischief 4y agoLearning about these things allows you to think differently and transform incoming information in more novel and well-adapted ways. You can't ask ChatGPT about things you don't know to ask about, and when you are able to use this tech on the fly through neural chip AR interfaces, everything is going to be totally fucked anyway and human relationships will look nothing like they do now.
- fdgsdfogijq 4y agoYeah its coming, improvements in these language models coupled with convincing AR will change the world. A full conversation with a computer that might be as engaging as with a human
- soulofmischief 4y agoHa, well I totally agree, this is a coming zeitgeist and at my company this is exactly what we are building. A WebXR-enabled playground for neural models and people to coexist, collaborate and form relationships. Virtual embodied AI who can take the same actions as players. My goal is to make them indifferentiable to the casual eye, and to create a working economy and camaraderie between AI and players. AGI might be a long way off, but we can already build increasingly fun experiences today as the cost of compute trends to zero.
- mensetmanusman 4y agoMemorization has a roll in prepping the mind for understanding later.
- fIREpOK 4y agoI was asking myself the same when web search-engines came out...
- 8note 4y agoBasically everything is some form of memorization. The real question I think is how much entropy each memorized fact should contain. Memorizing what the letter f does is much more valuable than memorizing the word floor. I don't need to know floor, the ai can know it for me
- visarga 4y agoI don't think zero-shot human solutions are all that great. Learning everything on the fly is useful sometimes, but it is not the best, on task experience has value as well.