My brother-in-law recently tried talking up Grok to me when I expressed skepticism. He had it look me up, half the information wasn't me, and what was me was clearly skimmed from my LinkedIn. He seemed to think AI will eventually do my job (I work in architecture 😄).
Rapidly shifting from “you won’t always have a calculator with you at all times, better learn how to do it without them” to “you can’t trust the calculations computers do for you, better learn how to do it without them” faster than I thought possible.
I’ve thought about this for a couple days and it finally hit me - AI is confusing/conflating a hippopotamus with the Hippocratic oath. We are so screwed.
I’m going to say that ai in education(at least the ones these politicians are talking about) is not a good idea but LLMs are not good with math unlike seperate things that with the current definition of ai would be called ai like a graphing calculator(shit example ik but like you get me)
Yes but as humans it's a simple test of "if I can’t trust it on questions I know the answer to, how will I know if I can trust on answers I don’t know the answer to?"
It would be different if you asked it 1+1 and it said "sorry, at this time I can't do math." Then people would be less aghast.
Yeah, hence why LLMs are not great at math because they aren’t coded to shut that down(or coded to do it differently), just as with the much greater issues of LLMs, plagiarism
You say this like it's the first time we've made math machines bad at math. I guess you never heard about the old intel chips in the early 90s that caused rounding issues.
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Implementation of AI in teaching fits perfectly in the republican playbook.
Let it teach kids how to poison I mean cook their own meals
If you're not going to claim something special, it's simple math.
Or they have weird reality fields around them.
It would be different if you asked it 1+1 and it said "sorry, at this time I can't do math." Then people would be less aghast.