MagicShel

Hallucination is a thing. It's a problem because you can't know when AI is hallucinating or not. But there are a vast number of grade- and high-school level things that it won't. Like yeah you can't ask how many footballs long is a hockey rink, but you can ask it how to go about solving the question for yourself, and it will answer, which is what you want the AI to be doing anyway instead of trying to solve the problem.

I'd do it again, too, if it weren't for those meddling kids and their dog!

Individual attention is good. And AI as a tutor can be helpful because they do have infinite patience.

That being said, genuine curiosity plays an important role and if a kid isn't curious about a subject, AI isn't going to help with motivation.

What's much more likely is that (eventually) AI Teachers and AI Doctors are going to be the best we've ever had. No human, not even the parents of only children, can lavish the time, expertise, and attention these AIs will give your child.

No, that's pretty unlikely. They have time and attention, but not really expertise. They have good command of straightforward knowledge, but just imagine the shitshow that would be explaining the politics of the American Civil War. Or Vietnam.

Yeah, AI knows what a gerund is and how to calculate the area of an ellipse, but it will struggle with more philosophical topics that don't have a clear cut right and wrong answer.

What if my only contribution is spamming "haha look at your stupid hat!!"? I don't know if that's a thing. I've never played.

You made a lot of points here. Many I agree with, some I don't, but I specifically want to address this because it seems to be such a common misconception.

It does and it doesn't discard the original. It isn't impossible to recreate the original (since all the data it gobbled up gets stored somewhere in some shape or form and can be truthfully recreated, at least judging by a few comments bellow and news reports). So AI can and does recreate (duplicate or distribute, perhaps) copyrighted works.

AI stores original works like a dictionary does. All the words are there, but the order and meaning is completely gone. An original work is possible to recreate by randomly selecting words from the dictionary, but it's unlikely.

The thing that makes AI useful is that it understands the patterns words are typically used in. It orders words in the right way far more often than random chance. It knows "It was the best of" has a lot of likely options for the next word, but if it selects "times" as the next word, it's far more likely to continue with, "it was the worst of times." Because that sequence of words is so ubiquitous due to references to the classic story. But over the course of following these word patterns, it will quickly glom onto a different pattern and create a wholly new work from the original "prompt."

There are only two cases in which an original work should be duplicated: either the training data is far too small and the model is overtrained on that particular work, or the work is the most derivative text imaginable lacking any flair or originality.

Adding more training data makes it less likely to recreate any original works.

I am aware of examples where it was claimed an LLM reproduced entirely code functions including original comments. That is either a case of overtraining, or far too many people were already copying that code verbatim into their own, thus making that work very over represented in the training data (same thing, but it was infringing developers who poisoned the data, not researchers using bad training data).

Bottom line: when created with enough data, no original works are stored in any way that allows faithful reproduction other than by chance so random that it's similar to rolling dice over a dictionary.

None of this means AI can do no wrong, I just don't find the copyright claim compelling.

Good to hear. I always get clumping on the spoon no matter how well I stir.

So I can have an even harder day?! Mission accomplished.

Also staff are poorly paid and have to endure abusive situations. I dated someone who worked in a care home and she was constantly subjected to sexual and other assaults. But at the same time it's already prohibitively expensive to have to live in one.

I don't know what the solution is but I would prefer euthanasia to ever living in one (for myself — I'm not advocating killing anyone just because they are old)

I see no MAGA stuff there. I'm in the other echo chamber, must be (and happily so).

I was on vyvanse for years. And I slept about probably 4 hours a night on average. I had to go to adderall. It doesn't work as well, but it does work, and usually I can sleep.

I should never be off meds.

Stop plagiarizing my life experience!

For you, for all of us.