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We're totally ready to replace all teachers with this chatbot guys! The future is now! (twitter.com)

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Today's manmade horror: Bazingas on twitter are amazed that glorified chatbots like GPT-3 can produce readable text that is nominally about whatever topic you request. Say they just spent 20 minutes learning about physics. Say that this makes all existing forms of education obsolete. Say that teachers are no longer needed.

Directly below this someone else posted a prolonged dialogue where the GPT-3 bot calmly explained why a peregrine falcon is the worlds fastest marine mammal. When corrected it said that the sailfish is the fastest marine mammal, explaining that sailfish are warm blooded and have fur.

Bazingas think they can replace teachers (and everything else) with their half-baked machine learning systems because they're so ignorant and uneducated about anything outside their direct field of expertise that they don't actually know what any other disciplines do, or why they do what they do, or even how to evaluate when they're being fed bad knowledge.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)

People don't talk about the war on educators enough. I guess when literally everything else is going to shit it just fades into the background.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Way too many people, including on Hexbear, have the "teachers are just glorified babysitters and deserve contempt and less pay and no benefits because Mrs. Meanface was mean to me in 9th Grade" crabs-in-a-bucket attitude. :doomer:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We should fire Mrs. Meanface though, children deserve better, if you hate children you should not be allowed to be a teacher.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm not really supporting Mrs. Meanface and her grudge against kids as much as I'm saying further dismantling public education out of spite of Mrs. Meanface is only going to make things worse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

i absolutely agree, and add that mrs meanface does a disservice to every good teacher out there, when education is not liberating the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor.

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