Well if you are educated and you have kids then please be sure they get a good education because the opportunities for real educated people are gonna be limitless.
The jobs that require actual skills and talent have never been compensated well, and the fluff executive jobs are reserved for Nepo babies and people with connections.
The only thing real education is going to be good for in the near future is increasing your knowledge and anxiety about how screwed everything is.
tbf they wete already becoming useless, this just accelerated things.
schools have built themselves around around ratfucking public funds (via blank check loans to highschoolers, essentially), just like every other major industry in the US it seems
Exactly. The LLM industry is operating at a loss of hundreds of billions of dollars a year. Investors are just handing the world's wealth over to these companies that are going to go tits up the second they can't fund everything on hype anymore.
maybe this is more symptomatic. i have been through the academic wringer and have worked with ai technology in a professional way. from experience: ai is good at doing things, which have been done thousands of times (how else would it have learned it). and it can save you some time doing stupid tasks.
look at this the other way around: if ai is good at writing scientific papers, it has been done thousands of times and is unimaginative. this covers with much of my experience in academia.
i am not saying, that there are no scientific discoveries to be made anymore. quite the opposite. but i do believe that we overload students with stupid tasks and stress them beyond reason.
academia is very important. but as institutions of learning, discovery and preserving knowledge. over the years it has accumulated a lot of dead weight.
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trevdog@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 277d
what is the source of this image? looks like there should be an article associated
brianpeiris@lemmy.ca · 65 pts · 277d
Here's the article. It's an excellent read: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-destroying-the-university-and-learning-itself
Kirk@startrek.website · 15 pts · 277d
This community really needs
bettermoderation IMO.quick_snail@feddit.nl · -2 pts · 276d
OP's brain is so rotten and destroyed, they don't know how to link to articles.
They think that posting an image of a headline is "reading". Similar to folks who think typing a prompt into AI is "writing"
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 277d
I would blame all of this on the goals of education no longer being about learning.
This was a problem before AI
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 277d
Well if you are educated and you have kids then please be sure they get a good education because the opportunities for real educated people are gonna be limitless.
mycodesucks@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 277d
In what jobs, exactly?
The jobs that require actual skills and talent have never been compensated well, and the fluff executive jobs are reserved for Nepo babies and people with connections.
The only thing real education is going to be good for in the near future is increasing your knowledge and anxiety about how screwed everything is.
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 0 pts · 276d
Unfortunately job applications have been screening resumes with AI for decades.
And AI can't tell the difference between educated folks and not, so you're fucked.
IronBird@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 277d
tbf they wete already becoming useless, this just accelerated things.
schools have built themselves around around ratfucking public funds (via blank check loans to highschoolers, essentially), just like every other major industry in the US it seems
LodeMike@lemmy.today · 18 pts · 277d
Well that's because the government doesn't want to fund them.
lol_idk@piefed.social · 15 pts · 277d
Tech companies spend fortunes of borrowed money they'll never recover *
salacious_coaster@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 277d
Exactly. The LLM industry is operating at a loss of hundreds of billions of dollars a year. Investors are just handing the world's wealth over to these companies that are going to go tits up the second they can't fund everything on hype anymore.
kbal@fedia.io · 1 pts · 277d
It's a race to become too big to fail.
sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org · 2 pts · 277d
oof :(
queermunist@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 277d
10 years before the first illiterate college grad.
ramble81@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 277d
ramenshaman@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 277d
Many of my classmates used chatgpt to write their code during the final exam.
cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 276d
You were allowed to use computers/phones during exams? Thats new
Our boys used hidden phones to access chatgpt for code though
minorkeys@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 277d
And also society suffers.
amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 277d
degrees have bsen meaningless for a while if we're talking finding employment, LLMs just make it worse
kbal@fedia.io · 4 pts · 277d
Every time I see another AI headline, the Gamers Nexus "AI" video starts playing in my head.
ToxicWaste@lemmy.cafe · 4 pts · 276d
maybe this is more symptomatic. i have been through the academic wringer and have worked with ai technology in a professional way. from experience: ai is good at doing things, which have been done thousands of times (how else would it have learned it). and it can save you some time doing stupid tasks.
look at this the other way around: if ai is good at writing scientific papers, it has been done thousands of times and is unimaginative. this covers with much of my experience in academia.
i am not saying, that there are no scientific discoveries to be made anymore. quite the opposite. but i do believe that we overload students with stupid tasks and stress them beyond reason.
academia is very important. but as institutions of learning, discovery and preserving knowledge. over the years it has accumulated a lot of dead weight.
quick_snail@feddit.nl · -1 pts · 276d
What's gotten out of control is you posting a screenshot of a headline. It shows you don't read.
Which is just as embarrassing as using AI
cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 271d
It wasnt any article, just this poster
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 270d
And you've identified the problem
cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de · 0 pts · 270d
Well I agree what is written here so
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 270d
You are the problem
cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 270d
Wont argue on that one