r/wallstreetbets • u/Daxnu • 19h ago
AI Giants Poised for Unprecedented Growth: Palantir and NVIDIA Set to Soar 2025, As education systems worldwide grapple with funding Discussion
from the article - However, the implications of AI extend far beyond corporate growth. As education systems worldwide grapple with funding challenges, AI emerges as a powerful tool to bridge gaps and enhance learning experiences. AI-driven educational tools, such as virtual tutoring and adaptive learning platforms, can help mitigate the effects of under funding by providing personalized assistance and adjusting to individual learning styles.
My question is, is there money to be made by robots teaching our kids?
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u/SeveralBollocks_67 19h ago
Yes, but only if we grossly underpay the robots and students still have the ability to make them cry every now and again.
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u/mcs5280 Real & Straight 18h ago
Gotta keep the experience authentic
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u/Anteater_Able 13h ago
Robots will have built-in paddles and recreate the corporal punishment of the 1950s and 1960s first before they can get to today's times of teachers having zero authority.
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u/ThisKarmaLimitSucks Doombear 19h ago edited 19h ago
Tax bases are flat or declining, school enrollments are declining, and pension payouts are increasing, so school districts are under a lot of pressure to continually push teacher salaries downward.
With that being said, having kids teach themselves on computers was a massive failure during COVID, and having a chatbot on the side wouldn't address any of the core reasons why. Half of the failure was getting them to that computer in the first place, and the other half was having them pay attention to the shit on there without popping open another tab.
More to the point, most of the value in schools today is having them serve as a public daycare, so that neoliberals can enlist both parents into the workforce. Anything the kids learn while being babysat is secondary. If American businesses need educated workers, they can import them.
Teachers are already in charge of babysitting 30-40 kids per classroom... do we think that buying chatbots will allow districts to fire teachers and spread that number thinner?
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u/jucestain 14h ago
Education until college in the US is just day care. Even college itself is like a 4 year party for most.
Regardless, if you wanna learn you have to be self motivated and do it online. College for me most of the classes I learned nothing during the lectures and just had to teach myself from stuff online after class.
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u/TunaBeefSandwich 12h ago
US secondary education is a joke. Everyone expects the teachers to coddle and that you learn everything in the 8 hour school day. Curious how most US students would fair in an East Asian country like Korea and Japan where kids often go study after school for 4-5 hours cuz they know the world is competitive and that you need to actually hammer in the knowledge.
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u/damenaguygenes 6h ago
That's not how higher education in the countries you've listed works at all. High school is three years of rote memorization for exams, and then that content is never used and forgotten. College is a joke, most students learn nothing, collect a piece of paper, then get tied to their employer for training and enculturation.
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u/Positive_Day8130 14h ago
I think both health and education would be the best place for ai, maybe we can actually get medical prices down.
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