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Thanks for sharing. Hope you continue to post those links here. 🙂
Have started reading this author and each article is better than the other. For instance, view this on why Ukraine and Israel (and USA for that matter) are not permitted to win in post-WW2 world and what is the natural result of our “world w/o winners:”
Главное – участие. Евгений Добренко – о мире проигравших
https://www.svoboda.org/a/glavnoe-uchastie-evgeniy-dobrenko-o-mire-proigravshih/32967011.html
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The AI thing I talked about was hilarious. ChatGPT was acting exactly like a low-IQ leftie on social media. It takes real skil to program a machine to act that dumb.
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Re ChatGPT, Israeli Ministry of Education demands from teachers to pass computer modules on use of AI and enroll their students in online activities using AI.
I’ve already spent more than 2 hours of my time on the first 4 trainings; there will be around 12 more during this school year, from what I heard.
We were told at teachers’ meeting that AI was not (yet?) instead of us, but that the role of a teacher will change and workers w/o knowledge of new technologies will lose their jobs to those who learn how to work with new tools. Later, one teacher I work with said the goal is to decrease the number of teachers, making students study by themselves with AI. My mother was the most optimistic saying the current teachers’ shortage in Israel makes threats of firing unrealistic.
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“the goal is to decrease the number of teachers, making students study by themselves with AI”
Has everybody forgotten how terrible remote “learning” was during Covid? Or does it matter…. letting kids sit in front of a screen and absorb AI generated nonsense (people do realize it’s often wrong, don’t they) is a perfect neoliberal solution. Those with the proper means can still have their children educated while the bulk is rendered unemployable….
I’m loving the idea of a Butlerian Jihad more and more by the minute.
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“he current teachers’ shortage in Israel makes threats of firing unrealistic”
I hate to break it to your mother, but… teacher shortages don’t just happen, they are a result of conscious government policy… by governments that don’t want teachers cause they don’t want to educate the population.
Counter evidence is very, very welcome.
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The state of Illinois absolutely did manufacture a serious teacher shortage in the state. I supervise a teacher education program, and every spring I receive desperate calls from school principals who beg me to send somebody, anybody because they can’t find teachers. I witnessed the whole process of manufacturing this shortage from start to finish, and I won’t let anybody tell me it didn’t happen. We warned, explained, wrote statements, and nothing worked. We now have a failed teacher ed program that’s failing to graduate anybody. I have a large scholarship to award to future teachers of Spanish and German, and this year for the first time I will not award it. Because there are zero students. Not zero qualified students. Zero any students. I’m angry about this because we know how to educate future teachers. We had a great program, we have people coming back 10-15 later, grateful for how we taught them. But 10 years from now, nobody will come because our program was destroyed.
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I’ve never thought much about AI before those trainings and was shocked to discover (forgot where) that most teens use AI instead of googling the way I do.
Private stories came up as well. One teacher told how her teenage son gets summaries to study for Tanakh exams via ChatGPT. Another told how his son used the tool to write computer programs, so when his father tried to help him succeed at programming, he had to cut off Internet access entirely to make his son not to copy ChatGPT’s answers.
Articles I googled in Hebrew mention teens seeing ChatGPT as their best friend and asking it for advice on personal topics such as dating.
Have those initiatives come to USA schools too? I mean this:
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It’s a great mistake to use AI as a search engine. It’s not a search engine. It does many things extremely well, so why not use it for what it can do?
This is why it’s important to teach how to use AI. Students use it but stupidly and unproductively. It’s up to us to help them learn to use it well.
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\ It’s a great mistake to use AI as a search engine. It’s not a search engine. It does many things extremely well, so why not use it for what it can do?
I’ve never used it yet in my life and after 2+ hours of training teaching me how to write prompts still don’t know what it’s chiefly good at.
Is it good for preparing math tests on a given topic?
One student of mine uses it to solve math exercises and receive explanations.
I heard re AI writing texts well.
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Go to Claude ai. Enter any text you have written and ask it to edit for style. Ask it to make it more formal, more academic, more conversational, more excited, more philosophical, etc. And see what it does.
My sister fired all of her writers the day she used Claude for the first time.
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https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/29/politics/executive-actions-trump-school-choice/index.html
“Trump is also calling on the federal government to cancel student visas for what he called “Hamas sympathizers” on college campuses, according to a White House fact sheet.”
(the mind still boggles that CNN feels the need to put Hamas sympathizers in scare quotes)
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Not too fond of this to be honest. Harvard can now punish and expel students for saying Israel is a settler colonialist racist endeavor. So you can be a student in good standing at Harvard for saying America/Canada/France/England is a racist endeavor, but Israel gets to be an exception? This is insane.
Dismantle DEI police on campuses who monitor you for racism and sexism and transphobia but install bureaucrats who’ll now focus on antisemitism? Fuck that.
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I agree but in the positive side, if Harvard tried to enforce this, it would have to get rid of 90% of the faculty and students, so it all moot anyways.
On a serious note, I want zero controls on speech but very strict controls over protesting and marching on campuses. It gets in the way of people who are actually there to work.
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That I can agree with. Stuff like this is disgraceful and should be prosecuted.
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Parents of these students should get the bill for repairs, too. That would teach a lesson in responsibility.
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Responsibility from leftists? Surely the bill should go to the government.
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Here it is:
Found a good interview with Dr. Ziv Katzir:
The man in charge of AI in Israel predicts professions will disappear – but no mass unemployment
Dr. Ziv Katzir, the head of the TELEM (The National Infrastructure Forum for Research and Development) program for Artificial Intelligence at the Israel Innovation Authority, is in charge of the national AI infrastructure – “its integration” and “management”, as per the definition of his tasks in the usual government-corporate-management jargon.
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Could you use AI to add an audio translation to English? In a recent Joe Rogan/Lex Fridman interview, Lex describes having multiple audio tracks in different languages on youtube, using AI to translate. He describes its problems and workarounds (by having a human intervene), and how he overlooked a translation mistake. https://youtu.be/I94u4_Wb82E?t=8127
p.s. The beginning of this interview was quite boring and strange, the last half much better.
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Sorry this is a better starting point: https://youtu.be/I94u4_Wb82E?t=8006
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