AI classrooms speak to a larger question of why we're willing to replace human practice with AI, and why.
Revered friends. I wrote a thing. Mainly because I had a stack of stuff on Joseph Weizenbaum on tap and the AI classroom thing was stuck in my head. I don't know if it's good, but it's certainly written.
As in with Eliza where we interpret there as being humanity behind it? Or that ultimately "humans demanding we leave stuff to humans because those things are human" is ok?
As in with Eliza where we interpret there as being humanity behind it?
This one. It helps explain some of the unfounded excitement and overconfidence we're seeing. It's not all unfounded, but the uncanny valley AI has stepped into makes it natural to want to root for it.
It relies heavily on an incredibly simplified framing of educational practice as simply ‘effective information delivery’.
Oh god they really think that, don't they? That you could take any guy, put him with a script in a classroom to read and it would be just as good. Jesus christ. I never considered that.