• Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
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    I mean, teaching is probably the least well fit a task could be for an AI robot, but I’m honestly not surprised at all at a sex doll company working on a project for building AI powered robots for use cases where human-like interaction is important. It’s going to fail for teaching applications, but for say customer service or retail…

    Sex doll companies are far more experienced at wrapping a decently realistic looking human form around some mechanisms than the sort of people who normally build bipedal robots. Building “skins” to wrap around bipedal robot frames to make them easier to anthropomorphize for customer facing jobs seems like a logical direction to expand into for a sex doll company looking to diversify. Teaching is just…very the wrong application of this.

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    It doesn’t really matter what other products the company makes.
    But a teacher is one if the least AI-able jobs I think. There’s no way this will work.

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      Good thing children follow directions and are so bad with technology. This plan is foolproof!

      Please open your books to page 34

      /s

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      But a teacher is one if the least AI-able jobs I think. There’s no way this will work.

      There’s no way it will give kids an adequate education…

      But that’s not exactly been the goal of the American public school system since No Child Left behind almost 30 years ago.

      Our public education system has been under attack for generations while the wealthy go to private schools and ivy leagues.

      And people act surprised when 18 year olds voted trump.

      Kids don’t magically become functional adults because of what a calendar says, someone needs to teach them to act right.

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      Definetely worst.

      It will specifically talk in a context where the human cannot tell if it’s hallucinating or not.

      Also it will be used by thousands of people consequently for 8 hours straight so we can speedrun climate change I guess.

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        Also it will be used by thousands of people consequently for 8 hours straight so we can speedrun climate change I guess.

        I’m going to assume this thing would run a model locally because the alternative would be insane, especially if you’re doing it to reduce the costs relative to hiring a teacher. And if it’s running a local model, then it’s at worst speed running climate change as much as a similarly-long gaming session.

        Which is probably the future of embodied AI in practical situations - running a local model in an appropriately designed robot body to the task domain at hand. If for no other reason than because in real applications you’re not going to want response time relying on network turnaround for any important task, or most tasks that involve interacting with the physical world in general.

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        It will specifically talk in a context where the human cannot tell if it’s hallucinating or not.

        LLMs are always hallucinating. That’s how they function. It pulls something that’s probably coherent from literal random noise and techbros pretend it was “thinking”, then when the result is something undesirable, they act like it made a “mistake”. Don’t buy into their bullshit.

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      least AI-able jobs

      It looks like it to the parents and the board, which is all that matters. Most of them don’t ever see the hours of putting together a curriculum, or answering questions, or grading essays and putting homework together and trying to keep kids interested. They just remember (wrongly) “well you get up and talk about stuff from a book, what if we fed that book to a machine and it said that stuff instead for the price of your salary, once.”

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    This reminds me!

    My job, whose entire goal was to sell marketing services using text messages, decided one day to pivot towards dating! Half the company’s job was to make it work!

    Imagine all those spammy

    “Want cheaper meds? Reply Y. Unsubscribe with ‘CANCEL’”

    but with

    “Hi I’m Tiffany I’m single. You interested? Reply Y. Unsubscribe with ‘CANCEL’”.

    Anyways I didn’t bail in time and then had to fight my ass off to get my last paycheck when they declared bankruptcy.

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    Smartphone apps were competing with teachers for student attention. It was time to stop playing defense and go on the offense.

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    I love absurd news articles where the journalist feels the need to proclaim “I am not making any of this up.”

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    These two households, both alike in dignity, met in 2024, and from forth the fatal loins of their union came Realbotix.

    So great.