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Yesterday I was sent a meme from a reader regarding AI's likely effect on education. I was curious. What would AI itself say? LOL.
Pretty amazing:
Query: a recent meme that AI would eliminate 60% of teachers and 40% of administrators.
Reply:
The meme I was sent confused me; it bothered me. It resulted in cognitive dissonance. Severe cognitive dissonance. The problem: the definition of "teachers" and "administrators."
It appears that the originator of that meme was also confused: confused about the "origin" of the "60%." The explanation should be reassuring to educators.
I was going to ignore the meme and then, today, while reading the history of H. Bruce Franklin, a communist, graduate student at Stanford University during the Korean War, ROTC, air force intelligence officer, graduated with a PhD in English literature, collapsed my cognitive dissonance. For those interested that history is on pages 336 - 337, Palo Alto, Malcolm Harris, c. 2023.
From the book:
Franklin finished his doctorate in a shockingly quick two years and, confirming his golden boy status, the department asked him to stay on as an associate professor, an invitation they hadn't offered one of their own grad students in more than 30 years. Four years later, in 1965, at the age of thirty-one, he received tenure. He wrote introductions for new editions of Hawthorne and Melville and could look forward to a long career as a prominent American, as they're called. But then there was the war.
By the time Franklin left the air force for Stanford, in 1959, the Cold War was well underway, and Lieutenant Franklin knew more about how it actually worked than almost anyone did. The Strategic Air Command was the centerpiece of American military strategy, and he saw its underside.
I wonder if Stanley Kubrick knew of / knew / read anything by Franklin that inspired him to co-write, produce and direct Dr Strangelove. Yes, I asked ChatGPT -- the answer, as usual, was incredible.
Link here. Dr Strangelove's doppelgänger? Elon Musk.
Amazing where ChatGPT took me at this point. I may post that at a later date, but it's way too long to cut, copy, and paste now.
Back to the meme -- once you start talking to home schooling parents, one realizes that the number of teachers and administrators will actually grow over time. However, they will be called something different, and they will earn a whole more money.
Sort of what the iPhone / streaming / Spotify did for music and musicians. Lana Del Rey was one of the products of that phenomenon.
One hour of Lana's music: link here.
