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Thank goodness for AI and all the online resources that will be available in the next decade to provide world-class education to EVERYONE for FREE.

by lvl102 4y ago

anonporridge 4y ago
This is missing the point about where AI is about to take us. Having a world class education in higher level intellectual pursuits is going to be worthless in the not too distant future. It's the upper echelon of education, work, and class that's rapidly going to be replaced by AI, and much later, the lower blue collar and technician jobs. Law, medicine, engineering, government policy, management, etc, are all on the chopping block. No one will care that you have a degree of any kind from Harvard, not because Harvard is producing less quality than it used to, but because it primarily produces brains that know things, and the years and decades it takes to produce that in a human is simply not worth the effort when you can just ask ChatGPT 13.0 for a better answer than any human who ever lived could give on just about every subject. ChatGPT is a massive threat to your doctor's job, not your nurse's job.
- lvl102 4y ago
  I strongly disagree with that assessment. Creativity is not going away and that’s never going to get replaced not because AI can’t do better but because that’s what makes us humans.
  - anonporridge 4y ago
    Harvard doesn't produce creativity. They create rule followers.
    - temporarara 4y ago
      The way they encourage kids to live life based on the principle "this will look good on my CV" is also nothing short of evil. It should probably be illegal for degree-sellers to take into account any extra-curricular activities.
- PuppyTailWags 4y ago
  I would be exceedingly worried about someone trying to take medical advice from chatgpt, given that chatgpt's training data set will include anything from mayoclinic to mommy blogs to new age stuff. Similarly, I worry about law, because chatgpt's training data will include old/expired laws mix with supreme court opinions mixed with sovreign citizens nonsense.
  - anonporridge 4y ago
    I consider ChatGPT to simply be a word like Kleenex or Google at this point. A brand name that has become synonymous with the generic. Also, don't discount the vast amount of cooky doctors and lawyers with fully legitimate licenses. The humans who occupy these roles make countless mistakes, and so will and AI version, at least initially.
    - PuppyTailWags 4y ago
      At least if a doctor or a lawyer gives you bald-faced wrong information that meaningfully harms you, you have some, limited recourse, and that doctor/lawyer takes on some, limited risk if they're found to be straight up negligent. With ChatGPT there is no recourse and no risk to spew harmful falsehoods. [To be clear: I state how limited this is because if doctors were genuinely held to give beyond cover-your-ass standard of care, there would be way less medically traumatized disabled people out there. Unfortunately...]
vkou 4y ago
You can already get a world-class education for free, all you need to do is to walk into your local library, check out the books that are on the reading list for the courses that constitute a 4-year undergraduate degree. Then, read each chapter three times. Then, solve the problems at the end of the chapter. This will cost you roughly $0. What you can't get is world-class instruction for free.
- temporarara 4y ago
  In many universities the instruction you are given is generally pretty lame. Outstanding courses exist in most unis but most of the time you get very little personal help. It's just how it is, and one of their goals is trying to teach you to become able to learn by yourself by working through those books. I think the most important thing they offer is a structure. Not just random courses but ideally some clear buildup for coherent knowledge.

Thank goodness for AI and all the online resources that will be available in the next decade to provide world-class education to EVERYONE for FREE.

by lvl102 4y ago

Thank goodness for AI and all the online resources that will be available in the next decade to provide world-class education to EVERYONE for FREE.

anonporridge 4y ago

This is missing the point about where AI is about to take us. Having a world class education in higher level intellectual pursuits is going to be worthless in the not too distant future. It's the upper echelon of education, work, and class that's rapidly going to be replaced by AI, and much later, the lower blue collar and technician jobs. Law, medicine, engineering, government policy, management, etc, are all on the chopping block. No one will care that you have a degree of any kind from Harvard, not because Harvard is producing less quality than it used to, but because it primarily produces brains that know things, and the years and decades it takes to produce that in a human is simply not worth the effort when you can just ask ChatGPT 13.0 for a better answer than any human who ever lived could give on just about every subject. ChatGPT is a massive threat to your doctor's job, not your nurse's job.

lvl102 4y ago
I strongly disagree with that assessment. Creativity is not going away and that’s never going to get replaced not because AI can’t do better but because that’s what makes us humans.
- anonporridge 4y ago
  Harvard doesn't produce creativity. They create rule followers.
  - temporarara 4y ago
    The way they encourage kids to live life based on the principle "this will look good on my CV" is also nothing short of evil. It should probably be illegal for degree-sellers to take into account any extra-curricular activities.
PuppyTailWags 4y ago
I would be exceedingly worried about someone trying to take medical advice from chatgpt, given that chatgpt's training data set will include anything from mayoclinic to mommy blogs to new age stuff. Similarly, I worry about law, because chatgpt's training data will include old/expired laws mix with supreme court opinions mixed with sovreign citizens nonsense.
- anonporridge 4y ago
  I consider ChatGPT to simply be a word like Kleenex or Google at this point. A brand name that has become synonymous with the generic. Also, don't discount the vast amount of cooky doctors and lawyers with fully legitimate licenses. The humans who occupy these roles make countless mistakes, and so will and AI version, at least initially.
  - PuppyTailWags 4y ago
    At least if a doctor or a lawyer gives you bald-faced wrong information that meaningfully harms you, you have some, limited recourse, and that doctor/lawyer takes on some, limited risk if they're found to be straight up negligent. With ChatGPT there is no recourse and no risk to spew harmful falsehoods. [To be clear: I state how limited this is because if doctors were genuinely held to give beyond cover-your-ass standard of care, there would be way less medically traumatized disabled people out there. Unfortunately...]

vkou 4y ago

You can already get a world-class education for free, all you need to do is to walk into your local library, check out the books that are on the reading list for the courses that constitute a 4-year undergraduate degree. Then, read each chapter three times. Then, solve the problems at the end of the chapter. This will cost you roughly $0. What you can't get is world-class instruction for free.

temporarara 4y ago
In many universities the instruction you are given is generally pretty lame. Outstanding courses exist in most unis but most of the time you get very little personal help. It's just how it is, and one of their goals is trying to teach you to become able to learn by yourself by working through those books. I think the most important thing they offer is a structure. Not just random courses but ideally some clear buildup for coherent knowledge.