What I said was that anyone with an advanced degree, that doesn't use AI as a tool, is very much at risk of being passed by , by a self learner that is accomplished at its use.
AI will only get more advanced. Anyone that ignores it will be at a huge disadvantage
AI will only get more advanced. Anyone that ignores it will be at a huge disadvantage
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Isn't encouraging self learning a positive ?
IOW, a library card may work better.
Source: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2025/01/lee_2025_ai_critical_thinking_survey.pdf
I was REALLY hoping you weren't going down this road.
Access to info without critical thinking skills is tantamount to giving matches to a toddler. What could go wrong?
critical thinking skills, combined with a love for and wonder about learning are prerequisites for successfully navigating the cesspool!
Thank you all!
Yeah, it's a tool, but nothing we create ever has the potential to be open and free and NOT privatized and capitalized upon.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2025/01/lee_2025_ai_critical_thinking_survey.pdf?ref=404media.co
Expecting "the uneducated", who don't even bother to read a book, will self learn with a machine that does the thinking and work for them is a bit far fetched.
Brilliant!
AI is a tool. Those who don't know how to use it will miss that it frequently gets things wrong. It requires proper guidance.
You are at a disadvantage compared to someone who has those tools. Neither tool replaces your application of logic to employ them however.
Your view of AI is one based on fear of the unknown.
It is useful and remarkably accurate at summarization of vetted content. It is a great time saver if you know what you are doing. It is dangerous if you don't.
It is coming either way.
So, someone can go into a job interview with a resume full of chatbot links (composed by a chatbot) and beat out a college grad for the job?
Take me for example, I actually have to watch and then do in order to learn. Verbal instructions don't always click for me.
True story. I struggled in math in grades 1-4, to the point I got put in remedial math in 5th grade. My brilliant teacher that year was the the first to teach me why you carry the one, why you need a common denominator in fractions, etc. Changed my life
AI can give you info, but not context. And when you ask for context, no guarantee it is is right or unbiased.
your s is literally about to destroy my kids chances - literally kick them out of university -/ which is currently being defunded by Musk
The more expertise something requires the less margin of error there is and AI isn't great at minimizing that margin yet.
but Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg have killed the public’s appetite for this kind of talk.
But the downside is people won’t have to learn to think for themselves. How to read a text and write cogently about it. How to formulate an original idea or hypothesis.
Just a bunch of lazy people saying “hey, Siri”.
They're called "books".
Probably because I'm a 70 year old woman and see have shades of the Terminator
Seriously, Mark?
“And our previous study of general-purpose chatbots found that they hallucinated between 58% and 82% of the time on legal queries, highlighting the risks of incorporating AI into legal practice.” https://hai.stanford.edu/news/ai-trial-legal-models-hallucinate-1-out-6-or-more-benchmarking-queries
https://www.courtwatch.news/p/lawyers-caught-citing-ai-hallucinated-cases-say-it-s-a-cautionary-tale-for-all-law-firms
AI eliminates humans need to struggle, and likely fundamentally changes how we evolve as a species. So no, to excited about this.
One must first have the curiosity to learn.
You said someone with ZERO education? How would they even know what the relevant questions are to ask?
Now you're on the spot.
What are you doing reaching for your phone?
"One second Mr. CEO and important partners. I must consult my device."
The potential to abuse this tool by the rich and powerful is pretty much a guarantee.
Who benefits?
Could it be billionaires that are invested in AI?
And how did we learn before AI?
“I have ventilators for those without access to air. I know its me who polluted the air, I know you don’t like ventilators, that you can’t afford them…but at least you can breathe. What’s the matter with you, standing in the way of progress. So ungrateful”.
They aren’t “learning” from ai, they are copying and pasting it with no real knowledge being learned.
In its current state it would be like giving kids answers to tests without them learning a thing, because learning is hard
What did you learn? Other than to cheat.
Things that you and your billionaire buddies want to cut out of public life, in favour of a chatbot that hallucinates and also requires that we set the sky on fire in order to power it.
No thinking required...
People are currently able to research and confirm or discredit any bias' in (mis)information they find.
Our brain is a muscle that needs to be exercised.
The internet didn't make these people learn and compete. AI won't either.
Do you know what books are?
Epistle to the Persnickities -
Per. - 8-6-75:30-9
A.I.? My Ass
https://www.jjcunis.com/post/the-book-of-joe-chapter-3
AI isn’t the solution.
I’m not a developer but I’d think not completely understanding what you’re building, might be problematic when vulnerabilities or issues occur in the future. Moving faster is great until you know idea how you got where you are.
However, AI is a snooping machine that steals your personal data and may give false answers depending in who's running it.
Short answer: no.
We do not, and we should not fully trust AI yet.
But that’s not what the plagiarism machines are providing. Those without access to education are in fact being lied to and being *robbed of* the opportunity to learn.
That is the actual value of an education Mark, quoting dates and times is for google, why those things are important is where learning happens
This feels like how social media was sold to us and look how that has turned out.
https://doge.gov/savings
- If remove blatantly stolen material for all the data, maybe.
- If it was given freely to EVERYONE without ever monetizing it, maybe.
- If they can remove the inherent human laziness, maybe.
- If the could guarantee privacy, ensure job security, maybe.
Maybe try not being a garbage person who acts like you're the friend of the peasants while simultaneously just being part of the same kleptocratic and neofascist Andreesen cult who thinks you can force your Yarvin fantasies on us?
Using any LLM to perform tasks that are usually done by professionals is not learning, it's trying to bypass the learning phase. At best it's foolish, at worst it's dangerous.
If they did not accomplish that goal, why should we trust that AI will be any different?
I would argue social media has some of those same aspirations. Look where that's gotten us.
Unscrupulous actors will corrupt AI just as they have social media.
AI cannot produce novelty, and idiots with cellphones cannot either
Experts can
AI is ubiquitous, due it's stock needing the latest model to stay inflated. That's not the same as capable.
Every worthwhile thing being done now is still being accomplished by the imaginative, critical, individual human brain.
I have three advanced degrees. I've used LLMs and it's arrogant to think those of us with an education haven't. LLMs produce roughly correct responses about 10% of the time wrt my "degrees"
I have a masters in clinical psychology. I am a therapist.
Do you think AI can do my job? Do you think someone with access to a hypothetical AI that returns 100% correct info can?
How good do you think an AI system would have to be to do even a crude mimicry of what I do as second nature?
I think if you’re not learning how to use AI you’ll be like the people who refused to learn how to use computers and then the internet.
You have no idea what AI is, how it works and how it is developed. Shows that you can perform as a tool, even as a rich fat slob. Maybe you should become an actor?
"If you have zero education, but learn how to ask AI models the right questions, in many jobs you will be able to outperform someone with an advanced degree, but who is unwilling to use Large Language Models."
Query a bot with both. See how its respones differ. Which is the point.
Plus, if you truly believed what you wrote, then why wouldnt you tell every 12 year old to focus in computer science?
You utterly pathetic dweebs are constantly giving it SKYNET OR ELSE because you feel so butthurt about someone telling you you're talking complete shite.
AI is a shortcut to the how, not the why. And the why is far more important.
You first, mkay?
Idiotic statement.
LLMs already record all your queries.
They could easily start being trained on biased info.
In a word, it has been harmful.
Rant over.