#and started comparing chatgpt in schools to calculators in school

[askshivanulegacy]

ChatGPT is NOT the same thing as a calculator

A calculator doesn't give you wrong answers.

It will ALWAYS give you the correct result based on your input.

If you feed it the wrong information, the answer to your problem will be wrong, but you can identify and correct it fairly easily because the logic is straightforward and consistent.

If you feed input into ChatGPT, you will not know if the output is right or wrong. You will not get the chance to easily identify whether it's right or wrong. There is no logic to the output, which is NOT an answer. Your output will be different every time for invisible, inconsistent reasons which will be impossible for you to determine. You must examine, in excruciating detail, every aspect of what it gives you to determine if it's correct and useful. You must examine every source it makes up to determine if it's real and relevant.

"ChatGPT is right 80%" of the time

"ChatGPT is right 90%" of the time

Unless ChatGPT is right 100% of the time, it is literally useless. You will spend more time and effort verifying the output than you would if you just did your own research and wrote something yourself.

ChatGPT is not a research tool, and it was never MEANT to be a research tool. There is no concept of "right" in the context of a ChatGPT output because that is not what ChatGPT is designed to do. It doesn't give you "right" or "wrong"; it gives you words that sound natural ... to a limited extent.

If all you need is output that sounds natural, regardless of the content, that is what ChatGPT can do.

If you need specific content, if you need research, facts, math, conclusions, actual THOUGHT applied to something, ChatGPT quite literally cannot do that.

If the output is sounding to you like it HAS done that, then that is the insidiousness of ChatGPT's lies.

If your teachers and professors actually advocate for ChatGPT, they are failing their job. You should care about that, because you're paying for them to develop your skills.

You should also care about that because that line of (zero) critical thought will give us "professionals" in industries who generate critically important documents which have hidden falsehoods and errors, which other people and other industries will rely upon.

If you want your leaders and researchers and officers and reporters and everybody else to give you imaginary information, then this is definitely the path we should be on.

This was never an issue with calculators.

Oh, but is it too hard to catch students using ChatGPT?

Cry me a damn river. Do your fucking job.

[pastryiee]

GUIDE TO SCHOOL

Hii! It’s me Kia, and today I’ll be giving you a run down on how I’m improving in school! For context : I’ve always struggled a bit with school but recently I’ve been getting much better at it, I have ADHD which makes it harder to pay attention, but I’ve improved, and here’s how I did it!

Remember : you’re doing this for your future self, you can do this!! Make yourself proud, do something great! You don’t need to study every single day for hours on end, studying can be 15-20 minutes, or however long you want it to be!

Basics overall instructions : minimize your distractions! Keep your phone in another room when studying, get an app that locks your social media apps until a certain time, and turn off your notifications, have a cozy study spot, choose calm peaceful music without lyrics! Active learning is better than passive learning, but mixing them both together is chefs kiss, one day do passive learning, and the next active learning, put what you’re reading into action!! Don’t just let it sit in your head. Practice! Like I said, active learning is amazing! you can practice anywhere, in the line for your coffee, grab your flashcards and do em! Just like that you’ll do the 30 minutes of flashcards you wanted to! Take a look at mock exams and try doing those! Take notes in an organized matter, that makes sense to you!! Explain the material in words that make sense to you. Don’t cram the night before a test, you won’t remember most of it, instead study days in advance, and the night before the test, review the subject!! but most importantly.. listen to your teachers!! Try to pay attention in class, what I do to help me with my ADHD is get a piece of paper, a pen, and scribble on it while my teacher talks, or I use a squishie, or a putty! Something to get me preoccupied as I try to listen to the teachers.

Note taking : when taking notes first do them quickly in class, just try to get all the information word for word. Then, rewrite them: make it more organized, highlight the important parts, add an example, brief and more simplified summary.

Study methods I personally love : My favorite method for English is the 3-2-1 recall method, read it 3x, say it out loud 2x, and write it on paper 1x. Active recall I use flash cards, or I either ask my friends to make random questions on the subject/material I’m learning, and if they’re not there? I ask ChatGPT this prompt “Please create flash cards and quiz questions for me on __”. Feynman method explain the subject as if you were talking to a fifth grade, simplifying it! Blurting, quickly read over your textbook or study guide, and write down as much as you can remember then reopen the textbook/study guide and compare what you wrote on your notebook, to the text in the textbook/study guide!

Math : this subject wasn’t exactly my strong suit, but what I did to make my life easier is relearn everything I learned in middle school-elementary school, yes everything, even addition and subtraction. By doing that I’ve gotten a better understanding, and grasp on what I’m doing now in algebra, luckily for me I have a friend whom is a tutor, and she often offers to tutor me every now and then! Then I’d apply what I learned irl, usually to figure out how much my total or what the discount would be if I’m at.. Sephora or any other store, I would whip out my trusty calculator, but instead I started calculating it myself, active learning(Reading then engaging in the subject and practicing the subject) is better than passive learning(only reading the things you’re learning), math is a subject you have to pay attention to and practice, use IXL or ask your friends to come up with random equations for you, and practice doing those daily!

English : I’d say this is a fairly easy subject, but due to it being easy I’d underestimate it, and the projects assigned, “oh I’ll just do this “Later tonight..” and that’s how I ended up with 10 missing assignments and an F. So my advice for getting better at English? Stay on top of your work, don’t underestimate it! What I did to improve this English procrastination was call my friend for 45 minutes, and we’d do a “silent study”, in the silent study we’d both shut up, and work on our homework, and if we needed help or feedback we’d do a quick wave to each other. Now for improving in writing etc.. is because of a tip I got from an older friend, she told me to write essays on things I like! Likeee.. I’d write an essay on the Percy Jackson series after I’d finish a book, a summary on what happened, how it made me feel.. etc, on the topic of books, reading can also help you heavily improve in English.

Science : to improve in science I make acronyms, lots and lots of acronyms to help with my memorization, an example: “Ricky is left handed” for reactants are on the left. Similar to science I went all the way back to the basics, and relearned them. I started with grasping the core concepts (Laws of motion, atomic structure etc..), then I’d relate this to real life, photosynthesis in plants, gravity affecting objects etc..

Sorry if this is bootycheeks I’m half asleep

[realcleverscience]

Alien Intelligence

I wonder if one reason why many people don't appreciate the advances in AI is that it's very much a foreign intelligence and is not developing like humans would.

For instance, when kids are small, they can only do what we would consider to be rudimentary tasks. Consider kids art projects: frankly, horrible. But we appreciate them as a sign of the standard progress in their understanding and skills. As they get older, they get more capable, those art projects can start to look more refined. After lots of practice and more some formal training, we find artists in their 20s or older who can produce stunning pieces.

In contrast, AI can often produce results that far surpass the skills or knowledge of a child. For instance, around 10 years there was the "deep dream" AI which reproduced art but with extremely strange and surreal results, like images composed of morphing cats. If one's goal was to make such a picture, we'd have said it was a creative genius; the problem is that we often just wanted normal pictures but the AI couldn't manage that. Similar issues with early chatgpt and hallucinations: It could provide arguments that sounded convincing - until you realized they weren't based on reality.

This is all extremely different from the "skills & understanding" of children. And perhaps that's one reason why people struggle to see the significance, the progress, and where this is heading.

To continue the analogy: AIs are today in their "teenage years" - somewhat capable, but not as reliably capable as a trained adult. There are still issues preventing AI from being a fully economically useful agent with the diversity of abilities we expect from humans.

That is true, and that is largely the point I hear from, let's call them, "ai-skeptics". But no-one would dismiss a human's potential based on their abilities in high-school. We recognize that they're not done on their learning and training journey. The same is true of AI. Instead of viewing them as completed projects and comparing them adults; think of them as alien intelligences that are still working toward "adulthood".

In other words, the question is less about "what can ai do today" than "what will ai be able to do once it reaches 'maturity'?" And related to that: "how long till it reaches maturity?"

This is where the real debate is, but it seems the consensus from experts in the field is that AI will reach maturity in the next 5 years, and that once it does, it will outshine almost all humans on almost all economic tasks.

And unlike humans, for whom each generation needs 20ish years to reach the level of their parents, new AIs can be trained in days. e.g. To "make" a 100 new neuroscientists for humans requires decades of work for each one, multiplied 100x fold to get 100 such scientists. But once AI reaches neuroscientist level, it can produce more instantly.

AI is an alien intelligence with alien "generation" times. It's not developing its intelligence like humans do; it's just different. (Moravec' paradox: Things easy for humans, like walking, are tough for ai. meanwhile, things easy for ai, like advanced calculations, are tough for humans.) But the AI IS developing, maturing. We are close to AI "adulthood" and then mass "reproduction".

Buckle up.