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He's overreacting. Its a matter of perspective. From the perspective of most of us here, asking ChatGPT to convert 3 minutes to seconds sounds trivial. We can d

He's overreacting. Its a matter of perspective. From the perspective of most of us here, asking ChatGPT to convert 3 minutes to seconds sounds trivial. We can do this conversion in our heads effortlessly in a fraction of a second. Because we've been doing it our entire lives on a daily basis. But for an 11-year-old kid, it can be a challenge. Why bother straining your brain if you can just ask ChatGPT... We are wired to avoid thinking and take the easy path. I bet that the things he's asking ChatGPT will appear equally trivial to somebody else. The best way to handle this would be to talk to her and convince her to not use ChatGPT...

ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
I'm old enough to remember when calculators in schools were really controversial. Some time, between then, and now, they started mandating graphing calculators. I know that many universities now assume that everyone uses word processors, and have a zero-tolerance stance on typos. Someone else posted an article, where the person was complaining about Apple (always a crowd-pleaser), and quoted Steve Jobs, talking about how bicycles acted as "force multipliers" for human efficiency, and compared the personal computer to that. LLMs are here. Can't put that genie back in the bottle (sorry Jafar). They are now a part of the landscape, and we're still in the old "big iron" phase. They will become much better, pretty quickly. Kids will need to work with them. I find things like this to be great, because they free me up to learn more stuff. They raise the baseline. People think that primitive folks were "dumber" than we are now. This was almost certainly not the case. They just didn't have the infrastructure that we have (dadburn kids, with their fancy "wheels," and "fire." Humpfh), and our kids will have a far more powerful infrastructure than we do. I'm fairly hopeful. If we can keep from blowing ourselves up, I think we'll be fine.

ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago

I'm old enough to remember when calculators in schools were really controversial. Some time, between then, and now, they started mandating graphing calculators. I know that many universities now assume that everyone uses word processors, and have a zero-tolerance stance on typos. Someone else posted an article, where the person was complaining about Apple (always a crowd-pleaser), and quoted Steve Jobs, talking about how bicycles acted as "force multipliers" for human efficiency, and compared the personal computer to that. LLMs are here. Can't put that genie back in the bottle (sorry Jafar). They are now a part of the landscape, and we're still in the old "big iron" phase. They will become much better, pretty quickly. Kids will need to work with them. I find things like this to be great, because they free me up to learn more stuff. They raise the baseline. People think that primitive folks were "dumber" than we are now. This was almost certainly not the case. They just didn't have the infrastructure that we have (dadburn kids, with their fancy "wheels," and "fire." Humpfh), and our kids will have a far more powerful infrastructure than we do. I'm fairly hopeful. If we can keep from blowing ourselves up, I think we'll be fine.