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New York school pauses plan to deploy humanlike AI robot teacher after backlash
apnews.com/article/new-york-school-artificial-intelligence-robot-teacher-c2126c704104c4eb68b79738630b07df
AP NewsNew York school pauses plan to deploy humanlike AI robot teacher after backlashA school district in a rural corner of upstate New York is hitting pause on plans to deploy an AI-powered, humanoid robot in the classroom.
Replying to @FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works
Anything but paying teachers a decent wage…
Replying to @inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world
$10 says it's a "repurposed" sex hot and it would've taken a whopping week for a more techy student to hack it and say profanities or something similar...
Replying to @fonix232@fedia.io
It is interesting that they couldn’t replace sex workers with their unskilled robots, but they think they can replace teachers!?
These companies are so out of touch with reality that they deserve to go bankrupt. Their investors are so out of touch that they deserve to loose their investment.
The wealthy have a huge incentive to want unskilled teachers. They’d probably rather go back to the days when only the wealthy were educated at all, but creating a bigger gap between the quality of education of the rich and the poor is a passable short term goal for now.
Remember, the point of a company isn’t to make a product, it’s to make a profit. It’s more profitable to have a dumb population that unquestioningly buys whatever you advertise to them, and if you sell a few crappy AI teaching robots along the way, that’s just a cherry on top.