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Bill Gates Predicts Within 18 Months, AI Will Be Teaching Kids to Read
Bill Gates believes AI chatbots "are on track to help children learn to read and hone their writing skills in 18 months time," reports CNBC:
Historically, teaching writing skills has proven to be an incredibly difficult task for a computer, Gates noted. When teachers give feedback on essays, they look for traits like narrative structure and clarity of prose — a "high-cognitive exercise" that's "tough" for developers to replicate in code, he said. But AI chatbots' ability to recognize and recreate human-like language changes that dynamic, proponents say... AI technology must improve at reading and recreating human language to better motivate students before it can become a viable tutor, Gates said... It may take some time, but Gates is confident the technology will improve, likely within two years, he said. Then, it could help make private tutoring available to a wide swath of students who might otherwise be unable to afford it... "This should be a leveler," he said. "Because having access to a tutor is too expensive for most students — especially having that tutor adapt and remember everything that you've done and look across your entire body of work."
Gates isn't the only billionaire thinking about how AI will affect education. Mark Cuban recently retweeted a prediction that GPT-4 "will revolutionize homeschooling."
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Spot on.
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If people had intelligence and critical thinking we wouldn't have the political problems we do now. Instead the rich use politicians to weaponize the stupid. They use woke nonsense to focus on our differences and increase in-fighting.
I agreed with you up until that sentence. From that point on, it becomes a Republicans-are-the-good-guy kind of rant. I would instead word it as:
The rich use politicians to weaponize the stupid, and by so doing, also elevate the opinions of the stupid to weaponize the intelligent.
Where "woke" attitudes fall on that scale depends on who you ask, and also probably depends on what specific attitudes you're talking about.
And personally, I view both sides of pretty much all political debates (including the woke/anti-woke propaganda) as profoundly stupid. They're both continually exaggerating the opinions of the other side, creating straw man caricatures to tear down, and all the while are completely ignoring the other side, failing to consider that the other side might have valid opinions, thus creating a giant vacuum where the political middle should be.
All of this is, of course, presumably to distract the public from the actual power.
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Woke is literally the mating call of the stupid. It means several things
1) Politically correct
2) Something I don't agree with
3) Ron DeSantis' definition "the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them"
https://www.okayplayer.com/new... [okayplayer.com]
Number 3 always gives me a chuckle.
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I don't see anything about Republicans in that. Think about it: All you guys ever do is bitch about Walmart and other big stores taking business away from smaller ones (and actually it's typically the opposite -- stores like Walmart are what the retail industry refers to as anchor stores. Those stores bring more business to nearby stores. When they open, so do more smaller stores. When they close, so do more smaller stores.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/t... [cbsnews.com]
And of course, you guys always protest Walmart buil
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Who is "you guys"? I shop at Walmart all the time. That article you linked pretty much sums up my opinion on the matter. Walmart might break some merchants who aren't able to adapt, but it also draws people in and helps some nearby stores survive that otherwise might not. My biggest complaint about Walmart is that they have far too many employees depending on government handouts because they don't pay well enough, but I mostly blame the political right of our federal government for that, rather than Wal
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“There is no single cause for why a store closes,” Lauren Willis, a spokesperson for Walmart, told The Oregonian/OregonLive. “We do a thorough review of how a store performs and weigh many factors before making the difficult decision to close a facility.”
Walmart has also announced store closures this year in Arkansas; Washington, D.C.; Florida; Illinois; New Mexico; and Wisconsin, according to Insider. It’s given no specific reasons for the closures elsewhere, either.
https://ww [oregonlive.com]
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There is no single cause. There are two. Mass theft in poor areas and unionization threats.
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A lot of businesses have been closing in Portland, Walmart is one of only very few that won't say why. The rest certainly do.
https://www.kgw.com/article/mo... [kgw.com]
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> What could possibly go wrong?
5G chips in your arm from the fake vax that turn you into a tranny pedo in service of Soros. I have the meme right here that proves it.
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You're asking the wrong question. The right question is, "What could possibly go right?"
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<BLINK> This is what conservatives really believe </BLINK>
Do you have any idea how completely moronic you look making claims like that? Literally every reader who has a kid knows you're lying about what teachers teach. Which makes me think you do actually believe this bullshit.
What is wrong with you?
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Hey moderator, rather than mod me down, actually come up with evidence the GP was telling the truth.
Give a source that genuinely shows that most kids are being taught even TWO of the things that the GP was claiming. Come on, I'll wait.
The right wing in this country is completely out of touch with reality. The GP is demonstrating this. As I said, EVERY SINGLE SLASHDOTTER WITH KIDS AT SCHOOL RIGHT NOW knows that everything he or she posted was complete bullshit. Completely whacko. Has no basis in any reality at all. Do you not think that needs to be discussed?
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Probably quite true, but it misses the point the all people are racist, so it misses the point that black people are racist too. And ends up just moving the target of the racism.
Its a direct consequence of survival of your genes, in order to survive you need to favor your group over other groups. If a lion doesn't eat its prey because its not fair, then it dies. If a zebra lets a lion eat it because its hungry then it dies.
Also we live in a world without perfect information, so we use heuristics like race t
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And even that misses the point that all people are fundamentally prejudiced in favor of people who are "like them", whether you're talking about race, religion, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, hair color, eye color, wealth/social class, caste, clothing style, or any of a billion other attributes that divide us. There's a word for that: "othering".
Othering is a huge problem everywhere, whether you're talking about race or any other characteristic, and it is important to not overemphasize one specif
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You just outed yourself in public as a hatest!
There is no evidence at all that hat wearers are more violent and if there is then mentioning that fact also makes you a hatest!
And a hatophobe, as well, for good measure.
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This post is one giant *citation needed footnote.
Just what is "spreading fantasies about slavery in America"? Calling slaves unpaid involuntarily relocated workers? https://www.texastribune.org/2... [texastribune.org]
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The upper class has unlimited money and has been able to inundate people with the limitless supply of carefully curated propaganda for pretty much ever.
A handful of really nasty assholes at the daily wire are going to lose their jobs and that's about it. The propaganda if anything is going to get a little bit worse because it won't be created by and spell checked by a person but good enough is always good enough-
I don't see any end in sight for your propaganda either. Should we shut you down too?
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As opposed to organic propaganda? Education of children has always involved indoctrination. With AI, at least you can see exactly what your kids will get, and train the damn thing yourself if you don't like it.
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Indeed. As the religious scum has demonstrated, the best time to indoctrinate people is when they are kids. At that age they will be willing to believe the most ridiculous crap and a majority never recovers from that.
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Considering that AI can't read or comprehend itself. I don't know what you are babbling about.
Every AI I have talked with has quickly proven itself to be useless. Current AI are designed to provide any answer even if it is incorrect.
That quickly gets old
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