I’d solve this with a pen, paper, closed classroom and a time limit, but that’s just me.: AI poses dangers the calculator never did. Calculators only gave students objective numbers. ChatGPT offers students a bottomless stew of prepackaged political beliefs, opinions presented as scientific facts, and outright errors.
Related: Your robot vacuums are watching you
This is why, in university, the final exam (which you had to write in person) was worth 45% of your mark.
Some were 75 %. True test.
In the 1980’s the Ministry of Truth would put telescreens all about to record the Party members, always watching. Now the Party has progressed whereby Party members and even the proles purchase the telescreens themselves to put throughout their home and to carry them with them everywhere they go, complying so far as to pay monthly fees to be monitored. Privacy ceased to exist with those being observed even choosing to have them nearby to monitor them while they shit and sleep.
That Roomba story is utter BS. I’ve taken them things apart, and guess what? They don’t have a camera in them, unless you would call the thing in a mouse a camera, and it sure as hell can’t catch an “intimate photo”, and even then, who connects their roomba to a network or the internet other than butt-plug ignorant housewives who want to use their spyware-filled apple phones to control their vacuums while their getting a Brazilian.
People who don’t understand how a given technology works are likely to ascribe to it all sorts of evil powers, just like this place does to li-ion batteries, or Chinese electronics. Far be it for anyone to actually try to understand how a thing works, look and see what its actually doing with cheap logic analyzer, etc.
The Roomba story came from MIT Technology Review, so maybe you could read it before screeching, hmm?
Some Roomba models map the rooms they run in. Guess where the maps are stored? Company servers. Roomba phones home, just like the doorbells. That’s not good, IMHO. Do I want iRobot selling the specific layout of my living room to anybody who wants to pay for that information?
If you RTFA you will discover the pics were from special ones that, yes, did have cameras. Specifically “development versions of iRobot’s Roomba J7 series robot vacuum.”
One of the things that makes AI so alarming is the garbage quality of the data it gets trained with in a lot of cases. Another is the garbage quality of the specific human beings doing the training, like the geniuses who put pics from Roombas on the internet. Or, for example Yoel Roth the dude in charge of censorship for Twittler until Elon bought it. Try to imagine the type of AI that guy would create.
Chinese electronics
Dude, I worked nine years for a major contract EMS multi-national. When I say the QA and safety of Chinese electronics are absolute shite, I know whereof I speak. When Google came to us to redesign the 1st generation Chromecast, 30% of the ones rolling off the line in China were failing basic QA. Thirty. Percent.
Apply that level of half-assery to the manufacture of high density rechargeable batteries and you get, well, exactly what we’re seeing now.
Imagine the software being written overseas. I’ve seen some of it and it’s horrific. It’s a miracle stuff works at all at this point. Half the critical day to day software you unknowingly use is written by absolute idiots.
“Calculators only gave students objective numbers”
True, and they could give you a root of an equation to help solve a polynomial factoring problem while you worked on another question of the exam, in the 1980s.
“ChatGPT offers students a bottomless stew of prepackaged political beliefs, opinions presented as scientific facts, and outright errors.”
You mean teachers will actually have to know their subject matter? Better than peer reviewers do?
LOL.
Know your sh*t or die applies to everyone, not just power-tool users, miners, pilots, etc.
Sadly the Karens among us will use all this crap as a further pretext to screw everybody over, because “safety.”
I’ll say it again:
The two red stripes and the Maple leaf should be replaced with two yellow stripes and a buttercup, its much more representative of what Canada has become.
Well if you are going yellow with the stripes, might as well put a banana in the middle
Indeed. Perhaps a banana sodomizing a buttercup.