AI confidently gives wrong answers 80% of the time, which means education now has to teach kids how to spot lies instead of memorize facts. The speaker uses stories about homework and calculators to show why knowing how to evaluate information matters more than knowing the information itself.
And if you ask a really, really, really specific question that needs a really specific answer, it's likely to be 80% wrong, but with a confidence rating of about 100%. 100. Well, if you believe in false maths. Beyond 100%. Beyond 100%. So I used to say to my kids, you've got all the information. You know, what's the point doing homework? What's the point doing exams? All the information out there on the Internet. Like we used to argue about, you know, your maths teacher saying you never have a calculator in your pocket. Guess what? I've got a calculator in my pocket. I don't even need my pocket. So when you're talking to the kids about doing their homework and why they need to do it, I used to say to them, you've got all the information out there in the world and you've got access to that on your phone at any point. Your job now isn't learning that information. Your job now is discerning what information is true and what information is not. And that's before AI. Now all bets are off. You haven't got a clue.
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