Comments by "oneoflokis" (@oneoflokis) on "the future is coming" video.

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OH. And if universities think that they can just "get by" by having "lectures on file".. Then I think that the lecturers are going to sue both the unis and YouTube, for royalties for their intellectual property!
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Mentoring, yes, mentoring... The thing is, Professor Tim, is that most state school teachers will tell you they haven't got the TIME for individual mentoring, these days... They're spread too thin, because the Tories haven't invested nearly enough in education, as they haven't in everything else. Haven't you seen those news stories a few weeks/months ago, that said how teachers were even having to buy class supplies out of their own non-inflation-matching salaries? 😏 I believe (as many people seem to in the comments, all of which so far I have read) that teachers should play an INSPIRATIONAL role, as well as a "mentoring" one. The fact that not all teachers are inspirational, is something that still has to be addressed. I watched some programmes earlier in the 2000s that seemed to be interested in this. How to inspire working class children to take an interest in science, especially. And other subjects. As for AI: I've tried it, it still seems fairly rubbish! Seems better at drawing pretty pictures, than either at writing or at ideas. 😏
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@byrnemeister2008 Interesting take! 👍
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Is it really?? What about something that some authors of a certain age were complaining about a few years ago - namely that their kids only seem to have to learn PARTS of books or novels at school, not the entire thing?? Is that true?? What about that then?? Seems a bit "prechewed" to me! What about the idea that kids are more illiterate and/or innumerate now, than they were decades ago?
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@tony_w839 Don't really have "evidence", as they're not my claims! They are just something I remember people with access to the MSM, including a celebrity author or two, saying a few years back.
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@tony_w839 And yet there are a lot of people saying that literacy standards have gone down.. Tories haven't exactly invested in education.
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@tony_w839 I am middle-aged: but you are of a considerably older generation than I! 🙂 Question: WHICH half to believe, though? 🙂
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@byrnemeister2008 Ah well, secondary moderns... I think that's why they got rid of them, wasn't it? The Labour governments, and went on to comprehensives. It was probably true that secondary moderns didn't provide enough opportunities for working class children who didn't pass the 11 plus.
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Well done getting the physics degree though! Despite your precarious start! 🙂👍
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But: "The girls' school across the road had a creche in the 1970s"... 😮
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AI is far from inspirational. It makes a better servant than master - including "schoolmaster". But as to AI. It's actually programmed to be BLAND. I've tried Chat GPT as a writing aid. It's only suitable for very simple online adverts, and very bland young children''s stories. That's already been my judgement after a good few tries. It won't write something like paranormal romance, not just because it won't put in swearwords or sex, but just because it's lousy at the whole idea! It couldn't write stuff like Anne Rice used to, or the script for a drama such as Good Omens. It couldn't even write a decent YA novel! 👎 Oh. And I asked it for lists of inspirational quotes SOLELY by women writers and historical figures the other day - and although I kept correcting it, it kept putting in tons of quotes by men! And relying too much on one or two female authors, such as Maya Angelou. See? It's hardly infallible, this AI!! 🙄
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@T0NYD1CK Yeah, but.. Maybe there are really expensive paid ones that are better. I've never really been able to draw, myself, so can see the utility is sfor the art ones.But honesty, why not just write your own book? This stuff DOES have limitations. Noam Chomsky says it's basically just fancy plagiarism anyway. 😏
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@T0NYD1CK Indeed. To all of that! I had heard of GitHub, but didn't really know what it did.
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💯👍
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 @Andrew-rc3vh Really?? Which cities do they have those in then?
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@Andrew-rc3vh I see!
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 @tony_w839 That's letting computers do everything for you! 😏 Not a path to wisdom😏!
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@Andrew-rc3vh Which Johnson? (And aren't many subjects and authors, eg Shakespeare, branded by kids as "boring". because of the uninspirational way they are taught? In fact, I was thinking about my own school experience this morning, in a context nothing to do with AI. Like in French lessons in the 1980s. They weren't quite as bad as "the pen of my aunt", but they had NOTHING to do with contemporary French culture, pop culture or anything else, and made NO attempt to include it. How can you properly learn a modern language, by being totally divorced from that country's current culture? Much of first year French vocab lessons was wasted, in trying to draw stupid drawings of objects and things. YOU try and draw a bicycle anyway, if you have no technical drawing skills! 🙄 I understand the visual element, but why weren't the students provided with STICKERS, so they could stick the diagram of the object or action in their books, and then write the word or phrase in French underneath?? I had the nous to think of that, when I was 11! And so on. Most of the educational materials for our comprehensive school French lessons were totally uninspiring. 😏 There were kind of posters, featuring the really very boring "adventures" of a pretty arbitrary trio of schoolchildren, who appeared to be led by this young lad in a polo neck jumper, by the name of Xavier. 😏 The way the kids were dressed was already out of date, looking like they were out of the 1970s, when we were already into the 1980s. There was no reference to any modern pop culture, or really ANY modern pursuit - such as skateboarding, even! The publishers of this dross probably avoided any specific references, so that it wouldn't date so quickly - but it was already dated, and they could have updated it every year anyway. And so on. I thought it was rubbish, anyway! Although I enjoyed learning French - but it wasn't because of those lousy "Xavier strips"!! (And to THINK what marvellous bandes dessinees the French have always had, btw - and to think that our class wasn't introduced to a single ONE of them!! 🙄) And the teacher rather sloppily thought it didn't matter - but when we DID start writing essays about our favourite films, I made SURE to find out what that Hollywood movie was actually called in French! "Le retour du jedi", for example. I thought it DID matter! 😡)
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@Andrew-rc3vh Indeed! I was trying to exclude the likes of Samuel Johnson, and anyone like some economist named Johnson that I had never heard of! 🙂 I thought Boris Johnson's real name was De Pfeffel?
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Well said!
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