this is exciting: accelerating entry-level talent is a huge lever to reduce the skills shortage. companies often lack the knowledge and capacity to identify and train junior talent so hiring experienced talent was worth the extra $$ and time. this could change that dynamic.
heard something like this 3 times this week:
"our recent grads are now much more productive than people who have worked here for years because they've really learned how to use ChatGPT".
Excited to see how the Socratic method works for subjects with more qualitative content than math.
Keen to meet any companies working on the application of GPT-4 to individual learning at this year's @asugsvsummit!
@sama quotes individual learning as one of the promises of AI that he is most excited by in his recent ABC interview. The Socratic method tutor in the @OpenAI GPT-4 demo makes pretty clear why.
https://t.co/G6X8p8bfME
Using the Socratic method is smart given the fact that asking questions is less likely to spread misinformation than making statements and the user is automatically prompted to go back and forth and feed back to the system.
@paulg In largely public systems (like Germany), the universities' incentives are not aligned with graduates' incentives who do not wanna continue on an academic path. Their prestige is earned through research, while for many jobs, a more practical education would benefit students.
@paulg Plus they often have to figure it out at an age where many still over-index on other people's and society's alleged opinions. Changing this could be one of the biggest levers in reducing skilled worker shortage, especially blue-collar.
The educational systems in most countries expect you to solve an impossible problem: to figure out what you want to work on before you know what the different types of work are like.
@robindchnt@madelinelawren In the 1950s Wuppertal made the Indian circus elephant Tuffi ride the Schwebebahn. he fell out into the Wupper. no photos exist (below a montage) because the journalists covering the story were behind him in the Schwebebahn... he got away with minor injuries.