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In some Minnesota schools, artificial intelligence gets a seat in the classroom (www.mprnews.org)
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[–] m_f@midwest.social 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Heh, you can see my opinion on Gary Marcus in another comment of mine: https://midwest.social/post/17934593/12838629

Even as statistical parrots and all that, they're fairly useful for learning, you just have to know their limitations. They're very useful for questions that are hard to search for but easy to verify, like "What is this funny math symbol?". Especially when the symbol has different meanings in different contexts, and you can explain the context to the LLM.

[–] Ascrod@midwest.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

They are not useful for learning if the information they give is wrong.

Neural networks are a tool and they have their uses, but something that generates garbage that is factually wrong a significant percentage of the time while burning our world to do it is not the tool our students need.