I have begun relying on AI and I don’t know how I feel about it.

[Tusktusk]

So far this month I have used AI to:

Analyse my colours (thanks MN) and suggest outfits

Create a menu of packed lunches around my dietary requirements and preferences, complete with a shopping list

Plan a holiday itinerary

Save me hours and hours of work and stress by suggesting really useful ways to overcome very particular work difficulties, having been thrown into an out of my comfort zone situation. I have used AI for this on a daily basis this week

Tonight, instead of posting my current family dilemma on mumsnet I chatted about it with Claude. The responses were really good. Wise, thoughtful, non judgemental, practical, understanding… like the best mumsnetters.

Am I starting to rely on it too much?

What have you been using it for?

Resistance is futile eh?

it looks that way, beause basically we get the candy first and the usefulness of it all

just hope we dont end up with the matrix

Not while I'm still above ground and teaching, it bloody well isn't!

Right by your side!!

and they may already be using Ai.

besides society manage to learn with some people teaching themselves or learning unofficially basically history will prove, society as a whole does not need the Victorian education system anymore for people to be able to learn and study etc, especially with google, Wikipedia and now Ai.

I totally agree. And what could be more unfair to children than the quality of their learning being affected by the skill, or otherwise, of their teacher?

I foresee a day when all learning is guided by AI, with each child leaning according to their abilities, with human assistants in the classroom facilitating good order.

excatly and the disruption when there are those that dont want to learn, distracting the teacher etc. Ai assisted learning can solve all of those types of issues

My child has 1:1 support at school due to his special needs. AI would be fucking useless for him.

Tell me you're not in education without telling me you're not in education.

My students (university level) are surprisingly sceptical of AI, actually, at least in the discussions we have about it and don't seem inclined to use it - at least, their essays aren't written in its quite distinctive style.

OK. Imagine AI as a text book. That helps a pupil follow it.

A text book that poses questions like "But what did Shakespeare mean by that?", or "How did that affect movement across Africa?" or "What is missing in that quadrilateral equation?".

Not dependent on lesson plans, how good that particular teacher is, or whether the school is underfunded.

Lol so true. Presuming every child is a self starter keen to learn. If AI can get my child to gcse level then I'd love to see that.

AI doesn't have free will. Kids do

orrrr we could give teachers a pay rise, cut class sizes and not boil the planet to death

tell that to the da vinci, the einstien, the other greats that taught themselves, yes on its own Ai can be risky however with combination of books, documentarys, textbooks, google, Ai, Wikipedia etc then we dont need the formal schooling system.

plus the works of john gatto taylor are a good read about the schooling system etc.

then we shut down the servers for all google, mumsnet, Ai etc because they all use energy and need water for cooling etc

but some would say the one size fits all model of school system itself does not help everyone, so then on that basis we could scrap the entire system ?

You are right that we need to be much more sober in energy terms across the board but adding an energy payload the size of Japan to the grid is not helping achieve net zero is it?

And how are your ai-tutored kids going to learn social skills and resilience?

Yes. Which is why I said there would be humans in the classroom to assist the children.

But they don't need to be expensively trained teachers to keep order. And children with extra needs would still be able to have the same support.

The point is fairness - across the whole country, children would have access to the same teaching. Not dependent on or affected by a particular teacher, or a better lesson plan, or constant supply teachers, or being in an inner City, or in an isolated area which can't afford qualified teachers. Because they are no longer needed.

"expensively trained teachers"

fuck me

keep taking the fucking soma

I will. I probably read that book before you were born.

weird flex but I mean it's possible, if you are in your seventies. Who knows?

better to learn in an environment where there are no bullies

How do you know there won’t be bullies in this classroom where everyone is learning by AI but there will be humans on hand to supervise?

one would presume they would connect to where ever they are and not in a formal classroom etc

until we get better tech etc net zero is pritty much a myth at the moment, unless the world shuts off all technology then we can easily achieve it

By attending school together, same as they do now.