A.I. Are you Excited?

[KDM]

I am curious as what is taught at home? Opposing views?

Neighbors home schooled their boys. Same lessons were taught that the public school kids were taught. The HUGE difference is that they instilled the morals, values, and life lessons they wanted to instill and not some political party. They were also able to teach both their sons shop, auto mechanics, home ec, hunting, fishing, carpentry, welding, livestock husbandry, gardening, how to run and use a tractor/skid steer, and all those wonderful skills and lessons NOT taught in public schools. Both can drive a stick shift. Their youngest will have his pilots license at 18 and the oldest is working as a mechanic for now and hitting diesel mechanic training this fall. Fine and respectful young men. They ran a fencing operation as summer income since they were 12 and 13, and did very well. Not afraid of hard work, dirt, sweat, and don't have their faces stuck in their phones all day or complaining about politics. Both take responsibility for their actions and hold themselves accountable for their mistakes. I'm very impressed with both these young men if you hadn't figured it out. That is what they taught their sons in home school.

Oh and I forgot to mention ACCOUNTING and economics. Both have their own money/checkbooks/cards, their own trucks they pay for, they know how credit works and what interest does to a loan. They understand investments, long term planning, and the biggie.............they were taught about GIRLS and how relationships should work. By their mother I should add.

 

[7mmMag]

The homeschooling model KDM describes is far superior to the public school system but that's not true of homeschooling across the board. The quality varies enormously and ultimately comes down to the parents. Some will give their kids a better education than any public school could; others will fall short of it.

 

[Traxion]

Neighbors home schooled their boys. Same lessons were taught that the public school kids were taught. The HUGE difference is that they instilled the morals, values, and life lessons they wanted to instill and not some political party. They were also able to teach both their sons shop, auto mechanics, home ec, hunting, fishing, carpentry, welding, livestock husbandry, gardening, how to run and use a tractor/skid steer, and all those wonderful skills and lessons NOT taught in public schools. Both can drive a stick shift. Their youngest will have his pilots license at 18 and the oldest is working as a mechanic for now and hitting diesel mechanic training this fall. Fine and respectful young men. They ran a fencing operation as summer income since they were 12 and 13, and did very well. Not afraid of hard work, dirt, sweat, and don't have their faces stuck in their phones all day or complaining about politics. Both take responsibility for their actions and hold themselves accountable for their mistakes. I'm very impressed with both these young men if you hadn't figured it out. That is what they taught their sons in home school.

Oh and I forgot to mention ACCOUNTING and economics. Both have their own money/checkbooks/cards, their own trucks they pay for, they know how credit works and what interest does to a loan. They understand investments, long term planning, and the biggie.............they were taught about GIRLS and how relationships should work. By their mother I should add.

This sounds like good parenting. I grew up the same way, but I was in public school. I had incredible shop classes, worked in the summers, tinkered in old snowmobiles and trucks, hunted and fished, and had a checking account early. My parents gave a shit and pushed me while public education helped grow my interests and hone my skills.

It really comes down to the fact that parents are the driver of success, regardless of type of schooling. As I said earlier, if parents worried more about the job they were doing, rather than what others (including schools) are doing, their kids would be better off. Public or homeschool its parents.

I had kids get pulled to homeschool while teaching. We watched them drive circles around the school. They did nothing because their parents allowed them. It’s not all sunshine and roses. Those kids wouldn’t work if an AI program did the work for them….

 

[Lycanthrope]

 

[Eatsleeptrap]

AI is not intelligent at all. It is GARBAGE for lazy people. Unplug it, take it out tie it to a stump and shoot it in the head, just terminate it. Here is an example. A couple other sites I am on have posted this video. Then people gush over it and all of our military heroes. The fallen heroes in the AI generated video were all military men, and I believe the mistakes in this video would drive them insane. It leads off with Chris Kyle, a US Navy Chief Petty officer and SEAL in a US Army uniform and goes downhill from there. Pat Tillman was a corporal, part of the E4 mafia, not a Sergeant First Class. I think they have Chesty Puller in a Salvation Army uniform. There are so many mistakes it is disrespectful. All AI generated garbage.

 

[Lycanthrope]

Jeff Bezos just delivered the clearest definition of what artificial intelligence actually is.

The market is still debating which department should own the AI budget.

They’re asking the wrong question entirely.

Bezos: “AI, modern AI is a horizontal enabling layer. It can be used to improve everything. It will be in everything. This is most like electricity.”

This isn’t a software product. It’s the new utility grid of the global economy.

Don’t treat it like a feature update. Treat it like the invention of alternating current.

When a horizontal layer hits the board, it doesn’t improve a single vertical. It violently rewrites the baseline physics of every industry it touches.

The companies that survive this decade won’t be the ones that bought a new AI tool.

They’ll be the ones that ripped out their entire infrastructure and rewired the execution engine to run on the new grid.

Bezos: “Because we are literally working on a thousand applications internally. I guarantee you there is not a single application that you can think of that is not going to be made better by AI.”

The standard enterprise strategy is to launch one or two safe, isolated AI pilots and test the waters.

You don’t pilot a horizontal enabling layer. You saturate the board immediately.

Amazon isn’t building a single monolithic chatbot. It’s deploying a thousand specialized execution loops across every friction point in the empire.

If your deployment strategy isn’t total saturation, you’re already bleeding margin to someone who is.

Interviewer: “What is it that you’re doing at Amazon?”

Bezos: “AI. It’s 95% AI.”

The standard CEO delegates automation strategy to a mid-level committee while focusing on quarterly earnings.

The operator commanding a trillion-dollar supply chain is spending 95 percent of his personal bandwidth on a single vector.

That is the market signal.

If the leader of your organization isn’t driving algorithmic integration from the top down with everything they have, the company is already dead.

It just hasn’t received the memo yet.

 

[Lycanthrope]

AI is not intelligent at all. It is GARBAGE for lazy people. Unplug it, take it out tie it to a stump and shoot it in the head, just terminate it. Here is an example. A couple other sites I am on have posted this video. Then people gush over it and all of our military heroes. The fallen heroes in the AI generated video were all military men, and I believe the mistakes in this video would drive them insane. It leads off with Chris Kyle, a US Navy Chief Petty officer and SEAL in a US Army uniform and goes downhill from there. Pat Tillman was a corporal, part of the E4 mafia, not a Sergeant First Class. I think they have Chesty Puller in a Salvation Army uniform. There are so many mistakes it is disrespectful. All AI generated garbage.

For all you know, this was generated intentionally to make AI look bad, don't be gullible... Also, not all AI is created equally, just like humans, some are smarter than others, some are more likely to lie, etc.

 

[Rowdie]

Without AI you'd never have this!

 

[Allen]

After a couple of fairly embarrassing examples (not by my local coworkers) of bad AI being used to pretty up images, we are strongly discouraged from using it.

That being said, I just recently had to go through AI training. It pretty much confirms my belief that it is not yet ready for prime time. It still needs a human expert to review it for actual work-related topics.

That being said, I use Gmail for work and have started to like its suggestions for rewording my prose. It's not fool proof there either, but setting aside my ego does let me realize it's better at writing than I. First drafts now look way better than my original rough drafts, and often better than what I would have chosen as the final version just 6 months ago.

 

[Jiffy]

That’s just it, it’s not real though.

I hate it!

 

[guywhofishes]

After a couple of fairly embarrassing examples (not by my local coworkers) of bad AI being used to pretty up images, we are strongly discouraged from using it.

That being said, I just recently had to go through AI training. It pretty much confirms my belief that it is not yet ready for prime time. It still needs a human expert to review it for actual work-related topics.

That being said, I use Gmail for work and have started to like its suggestions for rewording my prose. It's not fool proof there either, but setting aside my ego does let me realize it's better at writing than I. First drafts now look way better than my original rough drafts, and often better than what I would have chosen as the final version just 6 months ago.

I've been tempted but have resisted so far. I don't want more reasons to go soft on my ability to properly articulate my thoughts than I already have.

 

[Hunter58301]

Just read a report stating it is estimating that by 2030 AI will cost the world 30 million jobs. And it has already started!

 

[Rowdie]

 

[tikkalover]

Don’t plumbers already charge more than lawyers?