Student: "Wait, didn't the South win the Civil War?"

AI: "You're right! I'm so sorry for making that mistake. The South pretended to lose the war so that the North paid for reconstruction and provided much-needed capital. Looking around at how people are treated by the current government should have alerted me to the fact that the policies of the South are still heavily favored in today's politics. I'll try to do better!"

Oklahoma is 48th in educational quality. I'm sure this will drag them out of that pit.

At one Alpha workshop in San Francisco, the school sent middle school students to a Starbucks with preloaded cards, Wendy Vassiliou, whose son will start at the Tulsa location come August, said. Unbeknownst to the students, their guide had zeroed the account balance for at least one student, meaning their card was rejected at the checkout. The lesson aimed to teach students how to handle disappointment.

This is just cruel. Life is full of disappointments anyway; there’s no need to create more by tricking kids.

Alpha warns applicants that the school isn’t equipped to meet the needs of students requiring intensive behavioral, therapeutic, or one-to-one academic support. Applicants are asked to disclose any Individualized Education Program, 504 plan, or behavior or learning plan or risk being withdrawn.

Apparently “withdrawn” is the new word for “discriminated against”. Will this prevent them from receiving public funds?

Fortunately, kids who need specialized help will be taught by actual humans.

No teachers means none of those pesky "mandatory reporters".

To certain parents, that $40k is cheap insurance against little Liam or Olivia running their mouth.

This is going to be a disaster and those kids are the victims.

Brilliant. Entirely profit, no educational value, and it contributes to environmental and societal collapse. I can see why Republicans love it! /s

This is just so fucking stupid.

MAGATS will love it if it means they don't need to pay for woke teachers.

The future's looking reeeeeal stupid.

There are a sizable chunk of places where residents won't pay $40K for a teacher per year for the entire class much less per student.

Spending that much to program their kids with some bullshit version of reality while minimizing their human connections and teaching them adults can't be relied on. Sounds like a mass child abuse case that should happen here.

Idk how anyone who is a parent would believe sending their kid to a giant experiment would be the best thing for them. Then take into consideration this costs 40k and I can't think of anyone who is paying that much for higher education would ever think this is the best option available for the price. I hope it fails as hard as I see it fail in my head.

Also the comments about how they won't pay teachers like they pay AI is an understatement. AI took over so fast and shoved in peoples faces that a lot of people are just realizing your not saving any money by replacing people since the AI as a whole cost more than all the individuals you let go! Its like they missed the memo that it needs to be cheaper for most companies to try it but instead it cost a fortune to do worse work and hold no accountability if something does go wrong.

So they want ever single student to pay an entry-level teacher's full salary to then not pay a single teacher... and even then only get 2 hours of AI driven "education" in 4 subjects per day. And then a, what, 4-6 hour daily lab doing "projects" and "entrepreneurship workshops" whatever that means, broken up by a lunch break?

Sounds like they are trying to make more stupid capitalists with the 5 students that actually succeed with this model and leave the rest of the failures as stupid Republican voters that envy the capitalists.

I think I saw something like this in Japan, too. It's so stupid and lazy. Those poor kids.

Just so we’re clear, that’s roughly the starting pay for teachers in this state…

Well considering the quality of education (lack there of) this will be a step up for those kids.

God Oklahoma is such a shit hole.

Hey, remember school during COVID? When most kids wouldn't even bother turning their cameras on for remote learning? That worked out real well. What these dickheads are trying to push ignores the social aspect of learning. Sure, some people can learn in isolation, but many/most of us benefit from being around others. Processing information involves synthesizing your own thoughts, but also analyzing the thoughts and behaviors of others around you. And this doesn't even consider the motivation that a good teacher can provide and how it can build self esteem and self efficacy. The content, while not insignificant, is a vehicle to help people learn how to think, and not just acquisition of facts.

I feel sorry for the kids that may be sent there with no idea what injustice is being done unto them.

At $40,000 per-annum for tuition, the parents of these forsaken children are likely already corrupt, ignorant, and narcissistic.

The only good that could come from this is that taking the children away from such "parents" will prevent them from imparting their ideologies down to younger generations.

This reminds me of the time when the Nazis opened a hospital with only homeopathic treatments. That went about as well as you'd expect. Just like it'll go this time.

I've seen a Claude screenshot posted in a community of computer scientists where it “proved” P=NP through circular reference and cursed mathematics.

For context, P and NP are sets of problems. If an algorithm exists where the time it takes to determine if a solution to a problem is correct scales polinomially relative to its input size, it's in NP. If the time to solve the problem scales polinomially, it's also in P, a subset of NP.

The question now is if P = NP: Is every problem we can verify in polinomial time also solvable in polinomial time? We just don't know, although we think it probably isn't. But that's just a guess.

So someone asked Claude and it came up with: https://fixupx.com/connacher_/status/2079541927553212471 which, to a maths person, is hillariously incorrect.

I just don't trust in AI's ability to reliably produce true statements.

Okay, so most working people wouldn't be able to afford that, especially in *waves hand* pretty much the entirety of Oklahoma. Maybe a few millionaires will send their kids there, and they can support those useless adults through adulthood, and leave them their estate when they die.

Doesn't seem like a very good long-term strategy, though.

I don’t think this belongs in “mildly” infuriating

I really feel sorry for the kids. I hope this techno bros schools trend doesn't continue or our future generation is truly fuck*d.

As if education isn't already in the toilet.

Coming from the state lowest in education

lol

Hopefully nobody unplugs the ethernet cable to the school router