• nickiwest@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    “Literacy” down the line really hurts me.

    I’m an elementary school teacher, and I just had a conversation with my principal today that really upset me. He has a vision of the future where AI is ubiquitous and video takes such precedence over the written word that everybody doesn’t need to learn how to read. He thinks he’s a futurist. I think that version of the future sounds like a nightmare.

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      6 days ago

      I don’t see why AI won’t be ubiquitous in the future. Is the timeline of this future debatable? Yes.

      Yeah, saying “everything doesn’t need to learn how to read” is really stupid.

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          5 days ago

          Wow. That’s the spirit of good faith dialog!

          You’ve provided no evidence, absolutely nothing. I highly doubt you can even define what “artificial intelligence” actually means. I define it as follows:

          “An intelligent system is any system that has a set terminal goal, and that can change its approach to achieve that terminal goal by learning from environmental stimuli.” Hence, most machine learning models qualify as AI according to this definition. The first machine learning model was created in the 20th century.

          That being said, you dehumanized me before. That’s not nice. Whatever you say actually affects the person on the other end. I hope you touch grass sometime and learn how to interact with other humans, offline or online. I’m blocking you now. Hope you better.