I'm still sceptical.
Not an AI fail, but... how does my DeLonghi Magnifica manage to make coffee without being connected to the internet??!!
https://www.tomshardware.com/networ...st-of-the-traffic-never-left-the-home-network
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I'm just finished making coffee using a Moka pot. How on earth do I cope? 😉😂
Do you plug yourself into the internet for a download in the morning and clear your cache?
My brain has been clearing caches automatically for a while now. 😉
It's when you go searching in the recycle bin and what you're looking for isn't there either that you just give a shrug and move on...
Depressing, if not surprising to sceptics. Notice the correlation between writing skills and performance in science.
https://www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/blog/is-chatgpt-bad-for-students/
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It's very helpful for education if used well. At the moment, it is probably used more as a mechanism to be lazy and to cheat; however, consider the question below which was written by a human (apparently). I can have a meaningful chat with Claude about this which is helpful. When I asked Claude to review the paper, it pulled up a number of errors including spelling mistakes in the actual questions. That might have been helpful for the author and improved the educational experience for the child.
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That's the thing... it could/should be a useful tool and of great benefit in specific contexts, but the AI companies want it be deployed universally in education and elsewhere, even though we *know* that if misused/overused will cause lifelong cognitive deficit.
Sceptics might suggest that a population-wide cognitive deficit might be an outcome that the AI companies are hoping for.
We managed to do spelling tests before the arrival of AI. In fact, I can remember a specific spelling test I did with Mr Lawes 51 years ago where one of the words tested was 'sceptic'. And, in any case, I'm pretty sure that there were spelling test programs/apps before AI/LLMs came along.
That's the thing... it could/should be a useful tool and of great benefit in specific contexts, but the AI companies want it be deployed universally in education and elsewhere, even though we *know* that if misused/overused will cause lifelong cognitive deficit.
Sceptics might suggest that a population-wide cognitive deficit might be an outcome that the AI companies are hoping for.
We managed to do spelling tests before the arrival of AI. In fact, I can remember a specific spelling test I did with Mr Lawes 51 years ago where one of the words tested was 'sceptic'. And, in any case, I'm pretty sure that there were spelling test programs/apps before AI/LLMs came along.
I'm disappointed you haven't attempted to answer the question which is very much an old school question.
I'm disappointed you haven't attempted to answer the question which is very much an old school question.