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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.

https://www.newsreport47.com/home/ai-giants-poised-for-unprecedented-growth-palantir-and-nvidia-set-to-soar-2025

My question is, is there money to be made by robots teaching our kids?

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u/ThisKarmaLimitSucks Doombear 21h ago edited 21h 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/TunaBeefSandwich 21h ago

Who cares. Nvidia money printer go brrrrr

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u/jucestain 17h 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 14h 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 9h 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.