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Or, AI is going to be like when land lines became unnecessary when cellphones showed up in India. India may get to skip an entire intellectual generation due to the ability of a cheap model to educate (in any language).

The narrative that an entire population are “worth” less, paid less , know less, live less …

Fuck this less shit, embrace the paradigm shift. God is finally providing the remedial support through the miracle of AI.

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We've had YouTube for two decades now. Cheap education was already available for those who wanted it.

Youtube is insanely ineffecient compared to a good AI model in interactive mode.

Youtube is insanely inefficient even compared to a well written and organized wall of text. I guarantee that archwiki will get me on track faster than watching videos but google's freely available model will give me the exact step by step explanation that I needed nearly every time.

True. An "AI agent" is >100x as fast at mistakingly wiping C:.

I don't let AI agents anywhere near my systems.

I meant just interactive as in you talk to it in a browser a-la chatgpt compared to trying to find the same information from videos.

I don't know if you've ever been to India, but one of its characteristic features is that it has lots of local languages. LLMs are awful at almost all of them. Plus, there's 20ish% of the population that falls below the literacy threshold. It's hard to imagine how those people would be educated by LLMs even if that was a good idea and they all had reliable Internet access, which they often don't.

Why’s it hard to imagine? More training data will solve whatever language lapses it has. The next miracle is that TTS is perfect now, so they don’t need to be able to read.

You can convey abstract concepts as alternate abstractions, explain like I’m five but on turbosteroids. It’s the ultimate teaching tool and it’s about to be ubiquitous.

What training data? Many of these languages have very little digitized literature. Even if we assume they have sizeable extant corpuses (e.g. Tibetic/Bhoti), that's not enough. LLMs are still pretty garbage at English prose, for example.

!Remind me in 1 year (certainly less than 5).

Your comment raises question, if you have ever been to India. Most of those 20% are old people. K-12 education need to be improved but literacy is not a major problem. Also India has cheapest internet in the world.

Cheap doesn't mean universal. Access is uneven across India. Jammu & Kashmir for example, and ladakh have different kinds of issues.

Or you are proven wrong entirely, again and again. And it turns out, that the legacy, unimportant and derelict of the past - culture is all decisive It turns out that only some cultures can generate high trust societies, capable to form institutions. And you prolonged suffering, by declaring that all cultures are created equal. History may write you down a monster.

Some people are worth more than others.

Some cultures are better than others.

I guess Cannibalism good now, in the eyes of the downvoters.

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