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This sounds to me a lot like my high school teachers, who were extremely critical of this new-fangled thing called "Wikipedia". They said it would destroy my ab
by mgraczyk 4y ago
This sounds to me a lot like my high school teachers, who were extremely critical of this new-fangled thing called "Wikipedia". They said it would destroy my ability to learn, that it would ruin education if kids used it. How can you tell what's factual or made up if anyone can edit it?
Instead, Wikipedia was by far the most important part of my high school education. Nearly everything I learned in my second two years of high school I got from Wikipedia.
I think most people today would agree that Wikipedia is an invaluable part of early education and that it's done far more harm than good. All the fear-based arguments you are making applied equally well to Wikipedia in 2005, and I suspect that in less than 18 years we'll similarly recognize that LLMs or other intelligent language systems are invaluable parts of education.
- piuantiderp 4y ago"Nearly everything I learned in my second two years of high school I got from Wikipedia." Wow, and please understand this is not personal, but it must be one of the saddest things I read this decade.
- mgraczyk 4y agoWhy? I graduated at the top of my class. Wikipedia had more information on many more topics than are available at any high school anywhere in the world
- piuantiderp 4y agoAbout the state and value of the average high school.
- mgraczyk 4y agoMaybe, but on the other hand what do you expect without personalization? At big high schools, the best students will learn more in a few weeks than the median students will learn in all.4 years. We shouldn't expect one curriculum to work for everyone. That's why there new models should be so exciting for education.
- Vrondi 4y agoThey will be exciting for education, once accuracy can be hugely improved. I mean, we'll use them anyway, but there will be some kids who believe some totally untrue things that the chatbot told them in school during the early years.
- Vrondi 4y agoIt's sad that the rest of your educational environment let you down to that degree. That's what makes it sad. Good for you, making up the deficits, though.