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students use AI to generate essays; educators use AI to grade itā€¦ AI that is built on the backbone of stolen data and packaged as a shiny EdTech tool that educational institutes have to pay a fortune forā€¦ folks, do you see who benefits from all of this?
No matter who says that these tools arenā€™t intended to replace teachers or how many times itā€™s said, thatā€™s exactly what will happen. (Or it will be used as a justification for eliminating teacher jobs because now teachers can ā€œgradeā€ more efficiently) www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-t...
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Thereā€™s an 80s movie where they show a lecture theatre full of students and, as term progresses, more and more students are replaced by tape recorders. Eventually the professor is replaced with a reel-to-reel tape machineā€”there are no real people there at all! This the future #AI companies envisage.
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Itā€™s a stupid movie, but that part was surprisingly prophetic.
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The movie was loosely based on Caltech. I think that scene referred to the indifference at the time of many of the faculty to teaching. I was there around that time. Attendance at lectures at poorly taught classes fell through the quarter. We relied on notes taken by the friends who did attend.
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But yeah even though it was sort of a parody of an actual situation at the time, that scene ended up being kind of prophetic.
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Same situation, different technology I guess.
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Exactly, though as I remember it the faculty member was the last one to be replaced, before which he is lecturing to a room full of tape recorders! (A bit like teaching on Zoom šŸ˜‰)
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I think that that was also a Doonesbury cartoon (?)
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We have too few protopian stories about Humanity in the mid to late 21st century.