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Don't forget the education cartel. GPT4 technology could essentially give everyone a 24/7 tutor in any subject they're studying at a tiny tiny fraction of the c
by logicchains 4y ago
Don't forget the education cartel. GPT4 technology could essentially give everyone a 24/7 tutor in any subject they're studying at a tiny tiny fraction of the cost of a one-to-one human teacher. By almost every metric one-to-one learning overwhelmingly out-performs classroom learning (as the teacher has more time per student), but teachers unions are likely to heavily resist any move away from the traditional classroom model.
- valine 4y agoSchools have already started implementing blanket bans on ChatGPT, claiming that it prevents cheating. Receiving real-time feedback on an essay from a GPT certainly gives students an advantage, but I would hesitate to call it cheating. There is a growing uneasiness, particularly among individuals like Paul Graham, that GPTs diminish the importance of writing skills. However, I don't see it that way at all. In a future dominated by language models, written language is more relevant than ever. When I was in school, the existence of YouTube and Google made many classes feel like a farce. You'd go to class, and the teacher would explain a concept so poorly that you would be forced to go home and watch a YouTube video about it. LLMs feel like an extension of this, further diminishing the relevance of in-class learning to actual education. Time will tell if this finally puts an end to the farce.
- __loam 4y agoAs they should, considering there are no guarantees of information quality coming out of these models. Anyone who thinks these things are an authoritative source on any kind of information is insane. Putting it in charge of teaching our children is just giving our kids an inferior service to save a buck.