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I don't know if I am the only one who always trips up on reading this common theme in AI progress - that AI will be the pinnacle of education - but it really st

I don't know if I am the only one who always trips up on reading this common theme in AI progress - that AI will be the pinnacle of education - but it really strikes me as meaningless. What is the point of education if the bots can do all the work. If the worlds best accounting teacher is an AI, why would you want anyone (anything?) other than that AI handling your accounting? A world where human intelligence is second fiddle to AI, schooling _will not_ be anything like what it is today.

j_timberlake 2y ago
As if a tech CEO would ever speak the truth like that. If he admits that AI is going to wreck the job market, that would make the relevant politicians wary.
randomdata 2y ago
For what reason would school need to change? Education will change, but education moved to happening outside of schools a long, long time ago.
n_ary 2y ago
I am more worried about the fact that, these AIs will become the commercial moat of knowledge that we currently have available freely. The quality of knowledge you can now openly find is getting scarce or prominently moving behind paywalls. However, these AI models have access to the same knowledge somehow freely. Once we start relying on AI for knowledge(see how people frequently just ask few questions, copy paste answers without further in depth knowledge or research, just like the parody stack-overflow copy paste era), it will continue to get locked behind further paywall and will no longer be accessible to general populace without the financial means. I am just afraid that, while we are too awed by the magic, the magic will eventually close the doors behind us on knowledge and only cater to the rich and powerful. Also there is that one fact when AI gains adequate power in societal terms of utopian abundance where AI/robots do everything. One day, the AI decides that to save the globe from further climate damage, fastest way is to delete the walking CO2 emission machine who also use other CO2 emission devices or consumes stuff that also generate CO2, a mass extermination and burial will immediately cut all CO2 …
- whamlastxmas 2y ago
  Even the shittest small LLMs today can tell you any piece of knowledge you want. We will always at minimum have access to our current level of knowledge. If AI invents “super science” and suddenly we can travel faster than light then sure that might get locked away. But we’ll never be helpless idiots who can’t even do math.
unraveller 2y ago
That's a good argument against a full accounting education but not against education itself, it's okay to drop legacy things like calligraphy class from curriculum. We are never going to automate ALL the work humanity does, that's as meaningless as both parties outsourcing their marriage to someone else. We still need to be well-rounded individuals to audit and direct machines (and ourselves) to make breakthroughs where we see fit.

j_timberlake 2y ago

As if a tech CEO would ever speak the truth like that. If he admits that AI is going to wreck the job market, that would make the relevant politicians wary.

randomdata 2y ago

For what reason would school need to change? Education will change, but education moved to happening outside of schools a long, long time ago.

n_ary 2y ago

I am more worried about the fact that, these AIs will become the commercial moat of knowledge that we currently have available freely. The quality of knowledge you can now openly find is getting scarce or prominently moving behind paywalls. However, these AI models have access to the same knowledge somehow freely. Once we start relying on AI for knowledge(see how people frequently just ask few questions, copy paste answers without further in depth knowledge or research, just like the parody stack-overflow copy paste era), it will continue to get locked behind further paywall and will no longer be accessible to general populace without the financial means. I am just afraid that, while we are too awed by the magic, the magic will eventually close the doors behind us on knowledge and only cater to the rich and powerful. Also there is that one fact when AI gains adequate power in societal terms of utopian abundance where AI/robots do everything. One day, the AI decides that to save the globe from further climate damage, fastest way is to delete the walking CO2 emission machine who also use other CO2 emission devices or consumes stuff that also generate CO2, a mass extermination and burial will immediately cut all CO2 …

whamlastxmas 2y ago
Even the shittest small LLMs today can tell you any piece of knowledge you want. We will always at minimum have access to our current level of knowledge. If AI invents “super science” and suddenly we can travel faster than light then sure that might get locked away. But we’ll never be helpless idiots who can’t even do math.

unraveller 2y ago

That's a good argument against a full accounting education but not against education itself, it's okay to drop legacy things like calligraphy class from curriculum. We are never going to automate ALL the work humanity does, that's as meaningless as both parties outsourcing their marriage to someone else. We still need to be well-rounded individuals to audit and direct machines (and ourselves) to make breakthroughs where we see fit.