If we assume arguendo that ChatGPT is always correct, then it's still just a chat bot, and has some fundamental limitations in how it can interact with a student.
It's limited to displaying text or reading with a tts, and being interacted with using voice recognition or text. It can't see. It can't hear (it might hear words if it has voice recognition, but nothing else). It can't hear emotions. It can't see the look on someone's face. It has no body, it can't gesture, it can't draw (another solution can draw, but it isn't as impressive as chatgpt yet in a lot of ways), it has no sense of the energy in the room, it has no sense that someone is interested or not, it generally isn't going to be driving the lesson, it doesn't have the attention span to follow a short-term or long-term lesson plan.
So I think it'll be like a lot of things -- a tool, but nowhere near an apocalyptic tool.
Now, on the other hand, I think teachers should be more concerned that a lot of the people having kids don't necessarily trust public education is going to help their kids. Not only is the number of kids in general collapsing, but of those homeschooling, charter schools, and private schools are booming.
It's limited to displaying text or reading with a tts, and being interacted with using voice recognition or text. It can't see. It can't hear (it might hear words if it has voice recognition, but nothing else). It can't hear emotions. It can't see the look on someone's face. It has no body, it can't gesture, it can't draw (another solution can draw, but it isn't as impressive as chatgpt yet in a lot of ways), it has no sense of the energy in the room, it has no sense that someone is interested or not, it generally isn't going to be driving the lesson, it doesn't have the attention span to follow a short-term or long-term lesson plan.
So I think it'll be like a lot of things -- a tool, but nowhere near an apocalyptic tool.
Now, on the other hand, I think teachers should be more concerned that a lot of the people having kids don't necessarily trust public education is going to help their kids. Not only is the number of kids in general collapsing, but of those homeschooling, charter schools, and private schools are booming.
People lose their jobs to new tools all the time. It could be as simple as a conveyor belt being installed in a plant so the person who previously carried a thing from point A to point B loses their job.
It's a bad day for the people who lose their jobs, but it doesn't mean a conveyor belt isn't just another tool either.
It's a bad day for the people who lose their jobs, but it doesn't mean a conveyor belt isn't just another tool either.
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I think a lot of those white collar jobs were already on the chopping block before AI. There's a huge oversupply of such people which is one of the reasons for some of the bigger problems in the world as these people who know they don't actually do anything for their disproportionately good living try to justify their existence to themselves and to the companies they work for. It's like a dog chewing up the furniture because you never take it for a walk, but for middle management.