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Comment by CamperBob2

6 days ago

dangerous to students

It's fatally dangerous to students who ignore it or dismiss it out of hand. That much is already certain.

How so?

  • Wait and see. You're not paying attention now, but it's not too late to start.

    Go to your favorite programming puzzle site and see how you do against the latest models, for instance. If you can beat o1-pro regularly, for instance, then you're right, you have nothing to worry about and can safely disregard it. Same proposition that was offered to John Henry.

    • Please reformulate your argument, and I will check back tomorrow:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNSHZG9blQQ

      LLMs are rules based search engines with higher dimension vector spaces encoding related topics. There is nothing intelligent about these algorithms, except the trick ones play on oneself interpreting well structured nonsense.

      It is stunting kids development, as students often lack the ability to intuitively reason when they are being misled. "How many R's in 'Strawberry'?" is a classic example exposing the underlying pattern recognition failures. =3

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