BackgrndNoize comments on Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’

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[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How fast a kid learns 5th grade syllabus is far less important than how well they learn to get along with other kids and form friendships and basically learn how to live in society. Cooperation, conflict resolution, public speaking, group bonding etc. You can't learn any of these things from an AI

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[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Also learning from other humans is part of the human experience and tradition predating agriculture and the wheel. We've always taught each other things.

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[–] underwire212@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

You can’t do anything alone. Isolation will be the downfall of society as we know it. I hope AI isn’t leading us in that path

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago

This is the way, my kids socialize in school, but also uses AI to get help with homework when they're stuck (they do cheat a little sometimes but they know it's just bad for them if they do it regularly). They use AI as a on demand teacher buddy, if it stays that way I'm ok with it. Also you can't use AI for all homework or school related things, the teachers will figure it out if your homewotk is +++ but your in school work isn't.

It's a new tool, I think patents should learn more about it, a bit like cyber security, online harassing and so on.

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