Musk is working on replacing contract workers in the Department of Education with AI chatbots, aiming to use generative AI to handle student and parent inquiries.
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What could possibly go wrong? From a BBC article:
The search engine's AI-generated responses have also said geologists recommend humans eat one rock per day. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd11gzejgz4o
Please do this. They think government loan and grant spending is out of control now? Wait until a group a highly motivated kids figures out how to prompt engineer full tuition.
Brought to you by the same people who thought online teaching was a total disaster during covid and schools needed to be open and teachers were indispensable!
I’m a teacher and it’s obvious they will also work to overturn HIPAA and FERPA because all of this stinks of lawsuits. Every single law that protects people will be challenged or oveturned this year.
Musk probably has armies of problem solvers in his life. He has never had to work his way through a customer service computerized menu to figure out how to get to a real person who can handle nuance and variation.
And he just so happens to have a new AI Chatbot coming out…how long before his AI is all in the government systems and we’re paying him forever? But “they” see no conflict of interest…because he was told to self report any conflict he felt. 🙄
i guess he’s never interacted w one…. i foolishly have tried multiple times on various websites & have never had a good experience- question answered- not once!
That was my first thought! He doesn't pay his own bills or handle everyday shit himself. He has never been stuck talking to a phone robot and gotten nowhere. AI sucks, I'm sick of it. It can do half ass job for simple things and then a human needs to take over and get it right.
Dystopian, clearly. This is a pattern that DOGE is pursuing across the federal government. Good luck getting your Medicare and Medicaid benefits, Social Security benefits, America.
I hate to be cynical about this, but when we called the DoE in 2010 re: discrimination against the disabled In our elementary school, an AI chat bot couldn't have been any less helpful or understanding, and that was after Obama's announcement of reforms.
What the hell are we all doing still going to work or anything else? We've gotta stop the country from producing their money. This must end. We can own them if we want to. Fuck all of this.
Fuck Musk and fuck AI. "Government of the people, by the people, for the people." I pay taxes. When I call a government agency I want to speak to a human being.
Good luck with that. I’m sure parents and students can generate questions well beyond the scope of a chatbot. Have you ever tried negotiating with one?
Muskrat doesn't know anything about educational questions parents and students need answers from educators about. It seems he thinks AI chatbots are cheaper than live humans. Taking care of questions from parents and students requires a live, caring human being.
We all see how well AI works in the healthcare industry. I can’t believe that Musk who is a foreigner is overthrowing our government. Trump handed him our country. We must all continue to fight.
This is the plan. Remove real people. Replace with AI. Give more governmental contracts to Musk and bigger tax breaks for billionaires. Meanwhile regular Americans suffer. Unemployment up. Resources and support down. Billionaires are stealing our tax dollars for themselves.
I keep asking this! Where are the Karens? Where are the Tiger Moms? Where are the helicopter parents? I have to assume everyone is too busy with their heads down in their daily routines to look up and hear all this is happening. We need them to get engaged!
We’re literally here and involved with battling the districts, musk policy and how excited the districts are to implement them. We have been busy for years trying to get the districts to see students as children, not pocket bonus numbers, and pay teachers. You obviously don’t know any parents.
We’re already fighting and being really loud and fighting districts for treating the schools they run the same way hedge funds treat retail chains they buy to close down while scraping all profit they can for their own pockets. The districts have been slow marching to this, and are now celebrating
This explanation makes a lot of sense. I never could understand my ceos and tech bros are so excited about it. It does a lot of things faster but nothing better.
What they don’t realize is rural areas don’t even have enough private schools for all the rich kids. Even the most rich right wing freaks often send their kids to public school in the rural areas. They’re going to piss off their base. Almost like they don’t care about elections any more….
Elections? Trump already said there would be no more elections. Also, trump said that “Elon is good with voting machine”. The election was hacked just like our govt right now
For everyone who has ever wished they could go back in time and kill Hitler before the Holocaust started, I promise removing this scum from the Earth is the closest you'll ever get and easily the next best thing.
That should go over well. Americans love that frustration you get when “talking” to chatbots in private industry 🙄. Let’s duplicate that low level of service to the federal government.
Oh god, please no. Has anyone tried telling them that AI isn’t really that useful or accurate outside of a few use cases? AI chatbots in cases like this (my former company did this for HR) basically make it impossible to actually voice grievances. Which is probably the point.
Something like this requires a massive pilot study, congressional approval, and oversight. Also, AI is nowhere near ready for something like this, especially fElon's AI. You can't force The Singularity.
This is where his autism doesn't understand the essential need for empathy, a thorough handling of grey areas and a case by case sincerity when it comes to an individual child's needs.
That is a fundamental misunderstanding of autism and of billionaires. He's not doing all this to make the government more efficient and improve things. He wants wealth and power. Letting a bunch of people get hurt isn't some unfortunate mistake. It's a sacrifice he's willing to make.
We needn't drag autism into this. Autistic people are quite capable of empathy, and it's quite irritating to have a person's evil be blamed on who they are. Muskrat's problems do not stem from being autistic, but from choosing to be a dick, to feed whatever empty hole he's got in his heart.
I appreciate your thoughts here. Thank you. I can only go by my father who had HF autism and lacked cognitive empathy. He could be very cold and offensively logical to us NT siblings. I see similarities in Musk and understand why his daughter estranged herself.
Vivian Wilson is trans. Her father is transphobic. There may be other ways in which he failed as a parent, but hating one's daughter is guaranteed to drive her away. I hope your relationship with your father was not like that.
My father was violent. I was the target during meltdowns. And I was the first child so I took mum's attention away from him. But it's all a long time ago. An amazing stepdad helped me heal. The kind of stepdad that takes you shopping for shoes and girl stuff. 😊
oh, like those useless chatbots that telecoms use. If your question doesn't fit one of their four categories that offer general information you're screwed.
The tech is still in its infancy, and he wants to implement it everywhere. Musk is such an idiot. Not to mention laying off thousands of workers with no Universal Basic Income in sight. Are they planning on just euthanizing all the unnecessary people? Don't answer that.
right? They wont have to, just fire them, take away health care and social systems and they the chosen gods will re-engineer the human race to their liking. I am not kidding, they believe this.
For a start this is idiotic. Frustrated parents will not want to work with a Chatbot. Secondly it won't understand accents and also he be looking to get a nice contract for supplying that. Conflict of interest much.
Trump has shown us what they think of accents - can’t be understood, dismissed, next. Put with the stance on immigration and who gets deported, inc whose legal rights to be there are removed and even indicators of revoking citizenship, accents won’t be acceptable unless it’s a tinge of European.
If we wanted AI, it would come gradually and with several bids on the contracts. I doubt this administration is following that protocol. You can’t just replace everything with AI and call it progress.
As a developer of AI, I can tell you that the answers AI chatbots provide are nowhere near perfect. They should be used in conjunction with humans at best. Besides, no amount of programming can replace human to human connections
There is a level at which this can be useful, with common administrative issues like “my child is absent today for x reason” etc, and they’ll hang it all on that to push for broad acceptance.
How is that going to work? How do they program them to deal with all the problems and information parents & students call about. Going to be a big cluster f, if they do that.
We will reach AGI during Trump’s term. That is when AI is smarter than humans. 85 million (per Bezos) lose their jobs and then more. musk has control of our $, data and military and has more sinister goals. must revolt before jobs are replaced and we have no labor power https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?...
elon the ILLEGAL has nothing to do with our country why are we even listening to him he’s a NOBODY but over stayed visa to accommodate himself financially !people don’t get it?He should be arrested and stripped from his citizenship and sent him to Guantanamo!!
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The search engine's AI-generated responses have also said geologists recommend humans eat one rock per day.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd11gzejgz4o
Fucking Elon!
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2. The "can anyone rid me of this meddlesome priest?" method
3. Asteroid
2025: the same, but now the phone maze consumes 11 gigawatts of power
Additionally, why target those who help society?
HINT: The goal is to destroy HUMAN RIGHTS: https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights
Good luck dumbasses.
No words.
Immediate first strike.
Have you ever talked to a mom who has kids with even the tiniest of special need?
They scared the snot outta me...and I was one of them
https://youtu.be/AGQtcUdd8q4?si=lR6uAZZs7aq6vYeC
And if the goal is efficiency, why use ai?
fElon is 1 degree from the idiot
Who could you possibly mean? 🤔 🤔
#AI
No watchdog here, no oversight,
Just Musk declaring wrong from right.
Conflicts? Nah, don’t stress yourself.
He pinky-promised to police himself.
"You are out of luck and schools closed. Goodbye."
absolute fucking nightmare.
i want to talk to more humans, not less.
#FDT