By a 4-3 margin, the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools on Monday approved an application from Unbound Academy to open a fully online school serving grades four through eight. Unbound already operates a private school that uses its AI-dependent “2hr Learning” model in Texas and is currently applying to open similar schools in Arkansas and Utah.
Under the 2hr Learning model, students spend just two hours a day using personalized learning programs from companies like IXL and Khan Academy. “As students work through lessons on subjects like math, reading, and science, the AI system will analyze their responses, time spent on tasks, and even emotional cues to optimize the difficulty and presentation of content,” according to Unbound’s charter school application in Arizona. “This ensures that each student is consistently challenged at their optimal level, preventing boredom or frustration.”
Spending less time on traditional curriculum frees up the rest of students’ days for life-skill workshops that cover “financial literacy, public speaking, goal setting, entrepreneurship, critical thinking, and creative problem-solving,” according to the Arizona application.
This is insanity, humanity is slowly losing its mind. They want AI for everything.
¡Gettin Khan-ed over 'ere!
Why the fuck are we so accepting of everybody trying to replace real people with AI. The answer is money, obviously, but holy shit.
To be fair, white collar workers have become so lazy and incompetent, most of their jobs would be done better by AI.
Charlie Kaufman had some good words to say about AI in screenwriting. Most movies released today could be written by AI and nobody would be able to tell the difference.
You have no absolutely fucking clue what you’re talking about.
Most movies released today could be written by AI and nobody would be able to tell the difference.
This is the worst take I’ve ever read on Lemmy.
Do you hate cinema? WTF is this garbage? Imagine saying this about art, or anything written from the heart. What on earth?
We don’t need coffee. They invented instant!
Thank goodness for VR. Now I don’t need to travel!
Thanks, Ai girlfriend, you look cute today, too!
Naaaaaaah. This is a slippery slope, my guy. We aren’t doing this.
Fffffffff. Spoken like someone raised by bullshit.
I take it you like marvel movies.
Actually, man. I appreciate the level of effort that goes into that sort of production. I do find a lot to enjoy in the thrillride aspect and the sheer amount of work that goes into them
Sorry I didn’t conform to your generalization.
But I consider that entertainment entirely separate from being on the edge of my seat in terror for a frail woman in a cabin being antagonized by a metaphor for Satan, grief or loss in a film that cost as much as as one Cybertruck.
Yeah, I mean you could get gpt or something to write you a movie script. Maybe even get it to give you points on lighting, shots, etc. It definitely wouldn’t be close to a good film though, and probably some nonsense uncanny valley shit.
I don’t think AI will replace human creativity when it comes to art. It’s soulless. I know that’s a subjective judgement but it’s one I think almost all of us would make.
I’m not convinced that’s the screenwriters’ fault. I think more likely its that the mainstream movie industry knows that pastiche crap is what is most profitable, so that’s all it funds.
Similar with pop music. Most stuff that gets made is garbage. But it doesn’t mean that amazing stuff isn’t being made, it’s just that you have to hunt for it.
Movies are worse because the resource and people requirements for a single movie are much more substantial than for a single album.
I’d say it’s both.
Not all writers are complacent with potboiling, but most of them are and it’s what makes them average.
What a bullshit statement. I suppose we just let machinery take all the jobs of the blue collar workers too then?
If it can… yes. The caveat is that the government should provide for those who will be out of jobs. I would be very happy if machines overtook dangerous and difficult manual labour jobs such as mining
As someone who is extremely hands on and learns basically nothing from lectures, this actually sounds like a decent idea if it is executed well, especially the Khan Academy integration. I’d rather just sit down and read a textbook and do practice problems and be graded on them than be stuck in a lecture for 7 hours only to have to relearn everything anyways because I lose track of what’s being said in like 5 seconds of the lecture starting.
lol those kids are fucked
Maybe. Let’s see how it pans out.
(they are)
Yes and no. It really depends on the model.
The newest Claude Sonnet I’d probably guess will come in above average compared to the humans available for a program like this in making learning fun and personally digestible for each student.
The newest Gemini models could literally cost kids their lives.
The gap between what the public is aware of (and even what many employees at labs, including the frontier ones) and the reality of just how far things have come in the last year is wild.
I can see how this might be true if an AI can respond to individual cues from a single kid, which a teacher can’t reliably do because they have to look after 30 kids at once.
I’m skeptical that those cue responses will be reasonable though. Maybe in the mean, but I reckon there’s gonna be some wild and potentially traumatic edge cases.
yeah but the white ones will be able to vote
I can’t wait for the generation who believes that the War of 1812 was won by the French.
It’s already bad enough that many American believe that war was started by foreign invaders and that it ended in a resounding victory for the US.
Strategically, it was a long term victory for the US, but yeah, there’s a lot of misconceptions about it already.
Good song tho
This is some serious bullshit. I don’t have the time or energy to say more right now.
And by “AI” they’ll just have the kids solve captchas for 2 hours.
“Which one of these pictures is Jesus?” with pictures of:
Bacon
Swastika
AR15
Trump
Damn it. Gonna have to be bacon, curse my carbon footprint
I don’t get the panic. It worked great for 50% of Venture brothers.
Charter schools, lol
Online charter schools are horrifying. There is no expectation that the teacher know or understand the material they are teaching your child. High school is basically working through an online work book by yourself. Teachers use AI to “look up” answers they don’t know yourself.
It’s hell.
But this doesn’t sound like that. This sounds like a model that is using external tools made by humans like Khan Academy to actually do the teaching and just uses the AI model to process how well the person doing the course is understanding it.
I would be willing to bet serious money that a kid in this program would get a better education than a homeschooler, Because exactly like your earlier point, the vast majority of homeschool parents that teach their kids are fucking morons and only have their kids homeschooled because they’re fucking morons.
I don’t think homeschooling should be the standard we set for education.
El oh fucking el. Can’t wait to see how AI handles a classroom of rowdy pre-pubescent teens
Drone strikes.
“Time for home economics! Today we learn to make pizza. Be sure to use plenty of glue on the dough so the cheese doesn’t slide off!”
How long until the AI starts trying to sext the children, that seems to be a common theme across every article I read about AI and chikdren after its been running for a few months.
Today we will learn how to make a pie:
Gather ingredients:
- Flour
- Eggs
- Water
- 10 pounds of dog shit
- 10 gallons of cat urine
Cooking Process:
- Step 1: Mix all ingredients and place in a pan
- Step 2: Add Gasoline
- Step 3: Bake at 9000° Celsius for 12 hours
- Step 4: ???
- Step 5: Profit?
Thank you for this delicious recipe! My great aunt used to make this all the time for our ritual house painting and it always brought joy to the children. Try adding cinnamon or thumbtacks to the pie for extra zing! God bless!!
This recipe is garbage… I didn’t have any eggs, so I used olive oil. I also didn’t have an oven, so I put it all in my freezer overnight. It tasted terrible, although my 2yo liked it. My MIL told my wife to divorce me. 0/5 stars
not quite on-topic, but I hate online recipe sites/comments too
