A Tech-Backed Influencer Wants to Replace Teachers With AI

A Tech-Backed Influencer Wants to Replace Teachers With AI (jacobin.com)
from Pro@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world on 27 Jun 05:40
https://programming.dev/post/32964144

Backed by tech money, entrepreneur MacKenzie Price is growing a network of private K–12 schools that promises to replace all classroom teachers with an “AI tutor” that students learn from while glued to their laptop screens.

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remotelove@lemmy.ca on 27 Jun 05:49 next collapse

B is for Buy n Large (and billionaire) your very best friend.

furzegulo@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 27 Jun 05:50 next collapse

Let’s replace influencers with nothing.

NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz on 27 Jun 06:43 next collapse

But that wouldn’t change anything at all!

phutatorius@lemmy.zip on 27 Jun 19:28 collapse

Replace them with a chicken. Then at least I could have some fried chicken.

basiclemmon98@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 27 Jun 05:52 next collapse

NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz on 27 Jun 06:44 collapse

Hey that’s just Brian. Easy mistake to make.

beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org on 27 Jun 06:10 next collapse

No way rich people are using this shit on their own kids.

Emi@ani.social on 27 Jun 07:16 collapse

No, their Kids Will get private teacher. It’s just the slaves that get the ai.

ctenidium@lemmy.world on 27 Jun 11:24 collapse

And the slaves will do all the work. And spending. No earning only spending.

krigo666@lemmy.world on 27 Jun 06:38 next collapse

A tech backed moron, FTFY.

ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net on 27 Jun 07:56 collapse

What if he just want some of the sweet, sweet VC money but realizes this will never actually happen?

ChickenAndRice@sh.itjust.works on 27 Jun 16:18 collapse

She*, as it says in the article

merc@sh.itjust.works on 27 Jun 06:45 next collapse

I’m not even convinced that an “AI tutor” is better than nothing.

Probably better than sitting in a room staring at a blank wall. But, is it even as good as playing with lego? Playing tag with friends? Drawing with crayons? Taking a pet for a walk?

Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world on 27 Jun 07:24 next collapse

What could possibly go wrong?

Epzillon@lemmy.world on 27 Jun 08:21 next collapse

When will we replace influencers with AI? Seems to generate equal amounts of slop.

Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de on 27 Jun 08:31 next collapse

I know you’re just making a snide remark, but we’re already well on that track too.

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world on 27 Jun 08:41 next collapse

hmmm…I think I just got my first million dollar idea.

thanks!

JayGray91@piefed.social on 27 Jun 08:56 next collapse

I remember there's a few that made some news months ago. but that's all I recall tho

DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org on 27 Jun 09:53 next collapse

That’s exactly what Google is trying to do on YT with Veo 3 and the ‘AI slop’ button.

ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world on 27 Jun 10:02 collapse

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de on 27 Jun 10:20 collapse

I still wonder to this day if this thing (Neuro-sama) isnt just a really elaborate mechanical turk setup.

asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev on 27 Jun 14:41 collapse

No, it’s just some custom LLM coupled with some ML models. Thanks to the people that like talking to LLMs just in the form of a loli VTuber, this became an automatic money making machine.

Etterra@discuss.online on 27 Jun 08:40 next collapse

Translation: how can I get in on this “pulling up the ladder after me” stuff that the educated rich people do?

A_norny_mousse@feddit.org on 27 Jun 08:50 next collapse

Just to be clear: this is about the USA.

Austin, Texas–based influencer and entrepreneur shares of students at her dozen or so K-12 schools, a ten-year-old boasts that he is a successful Airbnb manager, while another constructs a miniature Cybertruck.

ChickenAndRice@sh.itjust.works on 27 Jun 16:17 collapse

I mean yeah. What other country is this batshit crazy about privatizing everything while preaching neoliberalism?

phoenixz@lemmy.ca on 27 Jun 13:42 next collapse

And when it inevitably fails, all hell have done is ruin the loves of countless children

So of course we’re not going to stop him

I hate this timeline

phutatorius@lemmy.zip on 27 Jun 19:26 next collapse

First, replace the influencers with AI. Then shut down the AI. Do us all two favors.

PanaX@lemmy.world on 01 Jul 01:03 collapse