[ExI] text singularity

[William Flynn Wallace]

One day the teaching of facts in any form will be history.   This punishes
bright people with average or poorer memories.

Facts are too easy to get via a modem.   What will be taught are processes,
such as the scientific method and other forms of critical thinking and
decision making.

Epistemology for kindergartners? You bet.  bill w

On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 12:59 PM Dave S via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Thursday, January 12th, 2023 at 1:01 PM, spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> Dave the article got me to thinking the capital S Singularity model is
> wrong. This is an extrapolation beyond the intent of the article of course.
>
> We have been shown repeatedly that most of what humans do does not require
> intelligence.
>
>
> It requires intelligence for humans to do it by themselves.
>
>
> We were most surprised when we found out good chess doesn’t require
> intelligence, followed by our current demonstration that intelligence is
> insufficient for the top levels in that once exclusively human activity.
>
> We found out that it doesn’t take intelligence to write a good essay. It
> still does require intelligence to write an excellent essay, but plenty of
> biological intelligence is incapable of a good essay. ChatGPT can generate
> good essays on any topic we choose. Do try it.
>
>
> I've been playing with it a bit. It's pretty entertaining, but it's pretty
> uneven. Sometimes it's great, sometimes it's bad, sometimes it doesn't even
> try.
>
>
> An example of a failure is when I requested a story in the style of Dr.
> Seuss and it gave me a retelling of Horton Hears a Who. Nothing it does is
> original but usually we don't immediately know who it's plagiarizing.
>
>
> We have seen that software can create abstract art better than some of the
> highest value modern painters. That isn’t AI.
>
>
> Again, it's not doing anything original. It's copying pieces of art it's
> digested and regurgitating them to the user's specifications.
>
>
> We are being shown that the future doesn’t need us. Even if the capital S
> Singularity never happens, human intelligence may be largely replaced
> anyway, using non-AI software.
>
>
> The future doesn't need anything. But what's the point of a future that
> doesn't include us?
>
>
> ChatGPT was a really big small s singularity in education. We are being
> shown that intelligence is no longer necessary to be a good teacher. It may
> be necessary to be an excellent teacher, but plenty of teachers are not
> able to match the level worthy of the rating of good teacher.
>
> Cool. Now we have arbitrarily many free good teachers.
>
>
> Yeah, that's great--if it's deployed properly. Freeing up excellent
> teachers for situations where they're really needed would be awesome.
>
>
> -Dave
>
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