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Future of Generative AI [David Foster]

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

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The Importance of Language Models in Education

Education is about helping kids understand at an abstract level, not just memorization. We need to prepare them for a world where every day they're going to be using this technology,. It will be embedded into Microsoft Word and in their messaging apps. And so we can't just say, well, you know, here's your word processor, and we're going to disable all of these when we don't disable spell checking - that won't work. There are two ways of thinking: One way is on the spot, critical thought, which you don't have that crutch of technology around you; or longer term, use everything available to you to produce the most incredible piece of work.

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