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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/Ormusn2o on 2024-09-25 12:58:41+00:00.
Maybe not so much on this subreddit, but a lot of people are talking about value of education, and how LLM's and chatGPT basically destroys students ability to critically think and how cheating using chatGPT might only work for high school but they will get in trouble when getting into college.
It might be hard to keep timelines, but I think there are interesting dates to keep in mind.
Initial release of chatGPT was in November 2022. It was at around elementary or middle school level.
Release of gpt-4 was in march 2023. It was at level of freshmen high school.
Release of o1 was in September 2024. It is at a level of college grad or college junior.
Now, if you were a junior highschool in 2023, now as a sophomore you have access to college level intelligence. If you were a college junior, when gpt-4 released, now you have access to one or two grades above you.
If you were in elementary school, by the time you will take exams to highschool, there is likely going to be PHD level intelligence access in your phone.
If you just entered college, it will take you 6 or 9 years to get your education, and it makes me think how much intelligence we will have in our phones by then.
Can people genuinely tell me what exactly kids are supposed to learn? Why is using chatGPT to solve your homework wrong? By the time you have some education, for most people their education will be completely worthless. Even if there are huge, multi year slowdowns in improvements, the chance your education will be better than that of a smartphone is very unlikely.