cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nz/post/34500837
Alpha School, an “AI-powered private school” that heavily relies on AI to teach students and can cost up to $65,000 a year, is AI-generating faulty lesson plans that internal company documentation find sometimes do “more harm than good,” and scraping data from a variety of other online courses without permission to train its own AI, according to former Alpha School employees and internal company documents.
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5 Comments
Almacca@aussie.zone · 11 pts · 172d
And of course it's called 'Alpha School', because a.i. and hubris go hand in hand.
DigDoug@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 172d
Maybe it's Alpha like in software releases - full of bugs and prone to breaking completely.
Mwa@thelemmy.club · 10 pts · 172d
Makes the school system even worse
Mist101@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 172d
Internet of Bugs did this video last month.
NABDad@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 172d
My guinea pigs get to be lazy, get fresh veggies every day, and a cookie every night. When their pens are cleaned, my wife hides apple pieces or blueberries or carrots in their pen and they have a treasure hunt.
There are worse ways to be treated.