re: What is your opinion on kids using AI to write papers, letters, etc.?

The more advanced our technology gets, the dumber the general public gets.
Eventually we will all be having AI write emails to the inboxes of other people who will read a summary of your email with AI.

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Big push in education to harness how it's used. We've spent a lot of time trying to find the line between its uses as a tool but also prevent them from just cheating with it too.

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I would think it is more important to teach them basic skills that don't rely on AI.

We already see people who are overly dependent on computers. For example, a lot of young workers cannot make correct change without having the cash register do the computation.

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The more advanced our technology gets, the dumber the general public gets.

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Big push in education to harness how it's used. We've spent a lot of time trying to find the line between its uses as a tool but also prevent them from just cheating with it too.

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Question: Who vets the AI?

I've read/heard multiple instances of where "AI" fabricated entire research papers (I'm talking published, scholarly research, not school papers), even inventing authors/researchers that don't exist. When questioned it doubled down, even creating an abstract for the papers, and providing a link to a real, legitimate journal that supposedly published the work. When people started to dig, they found the research project never existed and the listed authors never worked together. Sometimes they were just......fake people.

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What is your opinion on kids using AI to write papers, letters, etc.?

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It's called cheating.

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I also did a CEU last year that talked about using it to identify whether a client was suicidal. Basically you would open up the AI program to "listen" during the session and it would potentially pick up cues that could suggest the client was suicidal. Again, I have bigger concerns about the security of doing something like that. And I think the program that was suggested was something like $30,000 a year and it's not near worth that.

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That’s scary as frick.

I would imagine that being able to determine if comments that someone makes being an indicator of future suicide is something that only someone with years of experience, an understanding of verbal cues, and an innate past feeling could pick up on. Sometimes people say suicidal things when they feel like they’re safe to blow off steam. Is it good? Probably not, but I’ve done it and I have no intention of killing myself.

I didn't like it for the ad because at a younger age they do need to learn to writ themselves. But I would have liked it for an older age group (mid-teens) as they will need to learn how to work with AI. It can be a great writing tool, but you also need to learn how to direct it, limit it, and how to properly utilize the results.

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It’s sad that they’re teaching kids to computer type when they should be learning to stack dimes

The whole American “computer” experiment has failed and now all the people with fake email jobs are laid off and welders, plumbers, electricians, etc are the only ones making money

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This but unironically.

Ironically, there is no such thing as "AI"

Machine learning, yes. There is nothing artificial anout AI.

It's a computer program, it has to be programmed to learn and it has to know the answer to the question before it can answer the question. It does not think on it's own.

It's essentially a more precise search engine.

Doom and gloom is over

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That’s scary as frick.

I would imagine that being able to determine if comments that someone makes being an indicator of future suicide is something that only someone with years of experience, an understanding of verbal cues, and an innate past feeling could pick up on. Sometimes people say suicidal things when they feel like they’re safe to blow off steam. Is it good? Probably not, but I’ve done it and I have no intention of killing myself.

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It gets really complicated right?

If I'm using it as an accompanying tool (assuming the data is appropriately secured, which is a BIG assumption and an issue in itself) than sure, it could be useful in picking up on cues that sometimes we can miss as humans. But we all know there will absolutely be a therapist or a company that will want to fully rely on the software and that just brings up all kinds of ethical and safety issues.

There's some companies that have talked about utilizing it as a front line of defense when someone calls a crisis line to weed out whether they need to speak to an actual person. To cut costs of paying someone to do that same job. It really is terrifying.