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I am asking a lot here, but school needs to be training people what AI is and what it's weaknesses are and how to use it... My school taught me to use a calcula
by engineer_22 5mo ago
I am asking a lot here, but school needs to be training people what AI is and what it's weaknesses are and how to use it... My school taught me to use a calculator. It also taught me how to check my work when I relied on the calculator.
AI is a very complicated calculator - you give it an input, magic happens, it gives you an output. Really no different, to a layman.
- jaccola 5mo agoTo be fair, this should probably be covered by basic physics/maybe cooking classes. “You can’t determine the calories in food by looking at it” isn’t really ML specific.
- 2ndorderthought 5mo agoWon't help much if kids are ai'ing their way through physics then ten years later need to go on a diet having not applied the knowledge possibly ever or exercised their critical thinking skills
- engineer_22 5mo agoYes, the documentary movie 'Idiocracy' comes to mind
- 2ndorderthought 5mo agoIt's more complicated than a calculator. Even researchers who have dedicated their lives to the field don't know all of the limitations of any given model. That fact alone isn't helpful when a model is 80% correct in one area but 2% in another.
- pirates 5mo agoIf even experts in the field don’t know all of the limitations then it’s even more important to stress that relying on the output of an LLM is a poor choice without additional checking and verification. Even with calculators, I was taught that you should double check by hand sometimes to make sure you got it right.
- engineer_22 5mo agoYes OP is making a similar point, limitations need to be better communicated.
- garciasn 5mo agoConsidering the lack of basic math skills I encounter each and every day, I don't think schools did enough; they certainly aren't going to do enough w/LLMs.
- Ekaros 5mo agoKnowing the lack of understanding of basic chemistry and physics like fundamental thermodynamics... I have little hope any population can be trained to understand LLMs sufficiently...
- engineer_22 5mo agoMy HVAC guy doesn't understand thermodynamics, he can't even spell it. He's just trained to follow a flow chart. LLM will be the same.