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It doesn't really matter what other products the company makes.
But a teacher is one if the least AI-able jobs I think. There's no way this will work.
Good thing children follow directions and are so bad with technology. This plan is foolproof!
Please open your books to page 34
/sDefinetely worst.
It will specifically talk in a context where the human cannot tell if it's hallucinating or not.
Also it will be used by thousands of people consequently for 8 hours straight so we can speedrun climate change I guess.
LLMs are always hallucinating. That's how they function. It pulls something that's probably coherent from literal random noise and techbros pretend it was "thinking", then when the result is something undesirable, they act like it made a "mistake". Don't buy into their bullshit.
There's no way it will give kids an adequate education...
But that's not exactly been the goal of the American public school system since No Child Left behind almost 30 years ago.
Our public education system has been under attack for generations while the wealthy go to private schools and ivy leagues.
And people act surprised when 18 year olds voted trump.
Kids don't magically become functional adults because of what a calendar says, someone needs to teach them to act right.
It looks like it to the parents and the board, which is all that matters. Most of them don't ever see the hours of putting together a curriculum, or answering questions, or grading essays and putting homework together and trying to keep kids interested. They just remember (wrongly) "well you get up and talk about stuff from a book, what if we fed that book to a machine and it said that stuff instead for the price of your salary, once."
Reminds me of samsung haveing a hospital and makeing artillery
It's called "producing demand"!
Yeah, kinda weird things for a grocery store chain to do, but who am I to question them