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Khan Academy integrates GPT-4 as every student’s customized tutor

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The cynic in me wonders if "AI" has realized that the most efficient way to take over the world is to teach the next generation to be dependent on it for learning.

Replace "AI" with "powerful institutions" and you hit it on the head. Maybe "AI" should stand for "augmented institutions".

Maybe you'd be interested in Paulo Freire's book "The Pedagogy of the Oppressed"?

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Reminds me of that science fiction story by Ray Bradbury called the veldt... Computers raise the kids

Another one that came to my mind: "The Fun They Had" by Asimov

"Margie was thinking about how the kids must have loved it in the old days. She was thinking about the fun they had."

http://web1.nbed.nb.ca/sites/ASD-S/1820/J%20Johnston/Isaac%2...

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Reminds me of that science fiction story by Ray Bradbury called the veldt... Computers raise the kids

A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

... which had a real human on the other side, and the ones that didn't yielded rather different results.

Re: Khan Academy integrates GPT-4 as every student’s customized tutor

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Given that learning will probably soon not be required anymore to live a successful life (AIs will do everything better than you), I guess such learning-as-a-hobby apps will be the remaining niche to entertain the humans on basic income.

I wonder how many people will actually make use of it, though, and how many are instead content with being wireheaded by the various AI-based content apps that will appear, full with virtual partners (see Replika etc.).

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