• Chaotic Entropy@feddit.uk
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    4 months ago

    That sounds like a way to make a generation of students wholly reliant on AI, much to Altman’s delight. People are going to still need to know how to do stuff in the future and not just how to request the answers to things from somewhere else.

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      4 months ago

      (Disclaimer: this is not a fully formed counter-argument to your statement, merely my thought-vomit).

      As a kid growing up in the 90’s you wouldn’t believe the amount of times my parents and teachers vehemently insisted to me that I MUST do dictionary lookup drills because there’s no way I would just always have access to an electronic dictionary in my pocket. I was also told that I absolutely HAD to be fast at paper-based multiplication and long division. It’s not like I would just carry a calculator around with me everywhere I go, that would be insane!

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      4 months ago

      You sound like my teachers that bitched about calculators and the internet.

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        4 months ago

        I guess if Big Calculator was lobbying for children to no longer be taught any maths but for calculators to ask other calculators questions and have the student move answers between them.