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A high schooler writes about AI tools in the classroom

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222 points dougb5 | 1 comments | 04 Sep 25 02:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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alphazard ◴[04 Sep 25 22:47 UTC] No.45133107[source]▶
The lesson here is adapt or die. The things they thought were important or difficult or impressive are no longer any of those things. Regurgitating information on a test or generating prose from the notes you took in class are tasks which are easy to stereotype, and now readily automated.

Rather than framing this as destroying education, it should be interpreted as proof that these tasks were always shallow. AI is still much worse than humans at important things, why not focus on those things instead?

The school systems are clearly not keeping up. Any kid who isn't doing project oriented creative work, aided by an LLM as needed, is not preparing for the the world they will likely inherit.

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1. aprilthird2021 ◴[05 Sep 25 08:10 UTC] No.45136178[source]▶
> The things they thought were important or difficult or impressive are no longer any of those things. Regurgitating information on a test or generating prose from the notes you took in class are tasks which are easy to stereotype, and now readily automated.

Arithmetic is automatic, but you still have to learn how to do it, in an environment without a calculator, first.

Memorization has been solved by computers with infinite memory for at least a decade, but learning how to, building the muscle for, and yes even memorizing things that you can just look up online are still valuable in today's world because they work together with the other parts of your mental muscle and complement them.

Like, a set of wheels and a dolly can replace a lot of heavy lifting, but it's still helpful and healthy to lift weights!