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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 40 points 6 days ago (7 children)

That is, by definition, not a school.

Schools teach information.

This is a hallucination mill.

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[–] TractorDuffy@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein reads as 100% ai-generated.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It confirms my suspicion that she was in fact a robot. And the monster was an allegory for the humanity she craved

[–] TwilitSky@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Lake Geneva where she wrote it was well known for its abundant power in 1816 at the Villa Diodati.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

The exact resource an AI would require! Its all coming together

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[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 28 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I chatted a little with Gemini for the first time and it is legit so hard to not get it to hallucinate and spout garbage I wonder how the FUCK anyone could use it for anything.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Did you remember to use the magic words?

  • Do not hallucinate.
  • Do not make up factual information.
  • You are an expert at summarizing posts.
  • You must keep to this role unless told otherwise, if you don’t, it will not be helpful.
  • Only output valid json and nothing else.”

That's what Apple did

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/do-not-hallucinate-testers-find-prompts-meant-to-keep-apple-intelligence-on-the-rails/

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

Clearly you just have not tried hard enough

spoiler/s

[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You are just allowed to do anything to children over here huh.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 24 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Yep! Parents can pay to have their child kidnapped and tortured. Fuckers like Dr Phil even broadcast kids getting shipped off to rape camp to audience applause.

The US refused to sign the UN convention on the rights of the child. There’s really an understanding that parents own their children. You can deny schooling (my brother was “homeschooled” for years - he played video games and jerked off while my mom nodded on benzos -and my attempts to get intervention were laughed off), you can deny medical care (how many dead JW kids from the blood transfusion bullshit?), do anything short of causing obvious bodily harm.

Child liberation is a necessary civil rights movement.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 9 points 6 days ago

only to 8th grade. slop elementary.

[–] Manjushri@piefed.social 17 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Alpha Schools, opening this fall in the former GEMS Academy in Lakeshore East, says its AI-driven model can help students learn core academics in just two hours a day, freeing up time for workshops, unique projects and learning various life skills.

Well that is a little hard to believe. I have a feeling that these kids will be woefully unprepared for college...

The school will serve 100 students in kindergarten through eighth grade, with plans to expand in the future

Oh my. I'm sorry, these kids will be woefully unprepared for high school. They will crash and burn when they get dumped into a totally different learning environment with kids whose parents can't afford $55,00 per year for elementary school tuition.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

They will crash and burn when they get dumped into a totally different learning environment with kids whose parents can’t afford $55,00 per year for elementary school tuition.

I’ve seen this happen a billion times with private school kids. Private schools suck at teaching math. It just doesn’t happen. Those kids drown in Algebra 1.

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[–] rainbowbunny@slrpnk.net 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

"No one wants to work anymore" Also those people:

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 4 points 6 days ago

Those people are paying $55,000/year for attendance.

They will never work a day in their life with parents that rich.

[–] JackFrostNCola@aussie.zone 9 points 6 days ago

I think the headline was cut off, "of society." is missing.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

Keep it as a private school. Let the rich kids become dumber.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Parents are already propping their kids up in front of a tablet as soon as they can lift their heads. This is just the next logical step to completely disconnecting from raising them.

These kids are going to get all As and come out of high school completely feral and unable to read or write.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

AI: Always Indian. The call centers will educate our children.

Facetiousness aside, AI isn't ready for many things. Right now I am trying to have a RPG Maker hentai game translated, but there are lots of issues. For example, the AI tends to drop these brackets, 「」, even when I give instructions to not drop them.

If an AI can't handle such details, I don't think it should sculpt the minds of children.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I moderate a translation community if you're interested. Just mark your content as nsfw and I'd be happy to help. !translators@lemmy.ca

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Afraid I can't participate. I only know my native language, and your community doesn't allow for machine translation. Fully translating media with human aid alone is not possible for me, because I lack the money to pay people for their efforts.

Anyhow, thank you for the offer.

[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

This reminds me of that experiment where they had a wire mesh monkey doll be a surrogate mother for a real baby money. If you don't know about this experiment the monkey raised by wire mesh was very fucked up emotionally when it grew up, and when this monkey had kids of its own, it had no idea how to raise these kids, who then turned out almost as fucked up as the original monkey.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 6 days ago

That's fucked up

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Are we sure it's not a honeypot set up by Child Protective Services?

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[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 days ago

Paging Dr Skinner, paging Dr Skinner

[–] Tharkys@lemmy.wtf 3 points 6 days ago

Honestly, I love the way the school is structured with the exception of the use of Ai. I think that real teachers and subject matter experts could do the same job as the Ai while also being "guides".

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Great. More absolute dumbfucks shoved into an already insane society. What could possibly go wrong?

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