nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaac/2023/national_results.asp

"Over a quarter of US adults (aged 16-65) can't read more than simple text, and a third can't do more than simple arithmetic. Between 2017-2023, there was a significant increase in the number of adults scoring in the bottom proficiency level for both literacy and numeracy. A new category (Adaptive Problem Solving) has 32% of US adults in the bottom tier."

But keep buying courses and getting certificates to "make it big" and "be the next Elon"

Completely expected right?
AI is going to make this much worse

No lie i feel vastly superior to people who use chatgpt regularly for their job or study

I rawdog this s***

Imagine a large portion of your population unable to successfully comprehend long-form text

And then expecting those same people to be capable of critical a***ysis LMFAO

ChatGPT is great to supplement some of your learning but if you’re straight up having it do the work for you it’s eventually gonna blow up in your face

not reading all that

I still feel superior im sorry
Shortcuts are still shortcuts

The worst thing is when people make the excuse that engineers/mathy people don't need to write/communicate as well

I feel like we are the only country that doesn't expect both from people, when frankly it should be the bare minimum

Smart people take shortcuts

Nothing wrong with taking a shortcut if you can still retain and understand the material. It’s just another tool at the end of the day.

Is looking up information on my phone instead of going to the library and finding the exact book or encyclopedia a short cut?

It is but it’s also the better option

And how is the 51st state of America any different

Large language models like chatgpt are so ridiculously expensive to operate (OpenAI alone is going to cost $10b to operate in 2025 alone) and none of them have ever made any profit. They’re entirely funded by big tech companies like Microsoft who think they’re getting in on the next big thing. I give them one more year until they start enforcing premium memberships and locking people out after x number of free prompts. Not to mention just asking these things to check your grammar burns down an entire forest. These tools are not going to be around forever. And it’s gonna be a wake up call for a lot of people.

The subscriptions won’t turn profit either it’ll just be to appease shareholders for a few more quarters. It’s just not sustainable when it’s so obviously unprofitable.

do you think Elon reads ands does math?

Wouldn’t a chat gpt customer service bot be cheaper to operate than a real customer service representative tho? Or other simiar professions

Right now it is yes. But what I meant by unprofitable is that OpenAI, the company that owns, develops, and sells ChatGPT is so expensive to operate that it is impossible for it to ever be profitable for OpenAI.

Yea dont ask me a math question past multiplication

It's the constant need for stimulation.

There's been a teacher shortage for a while now, mostly because it's the most thankless profession that doesn't pay well.

Instead of paying teachers more, states have instead lessened the requirements needed to land a teaching job.

And if you live in a state like Florida, where say the Broward County education system is already an absolute joke on its own. You now have to also compile that with people who aren't fully qualified to shape our future leaders.

And this is before Trump is about to come in and abolish everything.

And that is how you end up situations like this: ktt2.com/texas-middle-school-teacher-forced-to-quit-after-going-viral-on-32565320