OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill to Fund ‘AI Literacy’ in Schools, at K-12 Level
22h 58m ago by lemmy.world/u/Argyle13 in fuck_ai from www.404media.co
Wow, they fund AI literacy, but…. Actual literacy is a problem
They don't want literate people. The majority of American adults read below a sixth grade level, and about a quarter are functionally illiterate - source
(Though my personal favorite statistic from that page is that 2/3 of illiterate Americans were born in the US, who often the same people who complain endlessly about immigrants speaking multiple languages)
AI literacy as in using AI to answer all your questions, aka brainrot.
And by “literacy” they mean “promoting the use of”.
So the mega corps that need AI to be integrated into every facet of our society are now going to force feed AI down your children's throats. Isn't this country the best?
With all this discourse about AI one thing just keeps being the best indicator for something being wrong: If it were so great and pefect, it wouldnt need to be forced into everything. People would just integrate it themselves.
AI literacy
Meaning know less, understand less, depend on our product so you will become a good mindless drone that we can control?
Seriously, what the fuck is there to know about AI for the average joe? Nothing, that is the entire point.
This literally is about creating dependency and I would not allow my kids to have to follow such a shit education
"literacy" -> marketing
This is akin to promoting the use of a product as mandatory in the school system. Oh yes, line cow milk.
Yet gun education is still not a thing
Regular education is barely a thing.
Read the article. And the definition in the bill is "teach how to use the technology." In the same way you are taught how to use a computer.
Down side it makes the software more accepted. But at the same time the best practices (actually learning the techinal not just "write these types of prompts.") Would result in disillusion of the BS hype as your seeing the Actual Indian behind the curtain
the best practices (actually learning the techinal not just "write these types of prompts.")
With Google and Microslop pushing for this, I imagine the important parts beyond "this is how you prompt" will somehow get left out.
Oddly enough it wouldn't. After all someone has to keep the LLM models maintained and we are not at a stage of AI self maintain itself
(Still distopia, speaking as a programming major, LLM maintance wasn't why I took that degree track.)
Cool create the problem, make the public pay for it
The education needs to happen, but not for the reasons they are doing it - kids need to know how ai works so they know why it doesn't in many cases. Disspelling the magic answer machine idea from everyone's minds starts with learning how it works and how it doesn't.
Thats the one thing that is a necessary out of all of this. Its already out there, so learning the fundamentals and its limitations is the best case. It should be highly applicable to the concepts of LLMs which are broader and can be used for good purposes.
Of course, the techy kids and even teenagers may dabble in AI in their free time, with a bit more thought put in. Even if gen alpha isnt the most fond with AI.
How about including an AI disinformation in this literacy class? Or using AI as a search engine to do fact checking. But I think they really mean "use AI for everything in schools and feed the data back to us" classes.
they already have data how AI hurts students ability to read and write proficiently.
gross
The movies didn't lie, it was a real shit.