alt Hacker NewsYou can be very AI-skeptic in various ways and still think that this is a fair take. I teach and supervise students as master's level courses, and about 15% of them have intrinsic motivation to learn. These students have set up their own AI tutors with prompts and know way more than me in certain areas of the field, they are extremely ahead of their class.
The issue in my country is that you equate education with getting a safe job. 20 years ago, you needed a high-school degree in social science to get a government job. 10 years ago you needed a bachelor in social sciences to get the same job. 5 years ago you needed a bachelor in economy/engineering to get the same job. Now, because of recessions this is stretching to masters degrees.
You can't expect people who just want a job and a comfortable life and NEED to go to uni for this to want to be curious and want to learn.
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> about 15% of them have intrinsic motivation to learn [...] they are extremely ahead of their class.
Feels like whatever tool they'd be given, they'd be ahead anyway. What's more worrying IMHO is, are the remaining 85% faring even worst than they would have before because they are learning even less, not just slower than the 15% learning faster. Namely is the gain for the few a loss for the majority?
And on other side education attainment has become metric for governments. More degrees and higher the degrees are better it will be for the economy somehow. Where there is likely quite a lot of jobs that don't actually need the degree.