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Randomized, controlled trial of students using GPT-4 as tutor in Nigeria. 6 weeks of after-school AI tutoring = 2 years of typical learning gains, outperforming 80% of other educational interventions. (blogs.worldbank.org)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

There's so much to legitimately worry about with AI, that we often lose sight of its potential good.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm pretty worried about the massive acceleration of our environmental destruction of the planet that it causes, so I hope they turn it to getting us the fuck off this rock pretty soon then.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00478-x

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Capitalism will fix this (bizarrely). Making AI more efficent (read more profitable) is on LOTS of peoples minds right now.

Whether it's more efficent chips, better algorithms or whatever, rest assured, LOTS of effort is going into it.

Our environment will still be destroyed, but it won't be AI that does it, just boring greed

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Capitalism will fix this

I won't hold my breath.

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