Soon, critical thinking may vanish from education for most kids. The wealthy will keep real teachers, while poor students get limited AI holograms—all to cut costs and keep taxes low for the top 0.01%.
I get A5 and A4 perfectly good. A3 is acceptable for arts. So is A2, albeit getting big and that takes time to work on. But A1? That is half a square meter. Quite a lot to force kids to deal with. What next A0 for entire square meter? Or A-1? That would be 4 times the A1...
Of all the things going on now, a slip of the tongue seems pretty benign, doubly so compared to the CONTENT of the message in question which is somewhat alarming (albeit inevitable). George W. Bush would crank out far more nonsensical phrases on a weekly basis, Reagan was a mumbling goon, Nixon was a lunatic.
People who think that we just woke up to find that politics was messy and full of incompetence baffle me. It's possible to believe that Trump is a disaster and still keep a measure of objectivity.
There's a wide berth between ignorance of how a thing works at a deeper level and true useful/societal applications, and simply being ignorant of its what it is entirely.
It's like hating social media in 2003 because MySpace was being used by pedophiles to target minors vs not understanding WTF it is entirely. The former is reductionist, but it was something that indicated one is aware of its presence, what it looks like, how it functions at a basic level, etc, that could be used to springboard further discussions.
The fact that someone who is in charge of public policy is so wildly ignorant of something they allege they'll implement, in a public speech, is shocking, and should draw no parallels to even the most basic get rich quick tech bros.
I could see someone making that mistake if they misread off of a notecard or teleprompter.
I have some sympathy though. I habitually mix up "SEO" and "CEO" (and I do one of those things as a full time job). I don't have dyslexia - it's only those 2 acronyms I constantly mix up, but only when talking out loud or thinking in my head, never when writing.
To add to your point, we elected George W. Bush again after hearing four years of his gibberish (and after he, you know, starting a devastating war). That was 20 year ago.
1 vs I is a reading error anyone could make on seeing something for the first time. The real question is how do you be a national leader and go on stage to discuss "AI" with so little understanding of it that you don't detect your misreading, and so little to say about it other than we're going to start using it. The answer is that this administration's members aren't chosen for competence, they are chosen for loyalty and grift.
There's a chance it's a stupid publicity stunt. It would not be the first time a republican would do something like that, but almost every time it happens on Twitter. Compared to how bad the idea itself is, maybe we can save some energy by ignoring the A1 part.
I have kids and I would like to not see education in this country dismantled, so yeah, I'd be interested in the job. But can I work remotely? I don't want to uproot them to move to DC.
Next best thing may be your local school board. They tend to collect crazies who are just using it as a stepping stone to a higher power political career, so having somebody involved who cares about doing the actual job is often very appreciated buy teachers.
At least where I live most education funding is not federal anyhow, so total dismantling isn't imminent whatever the feds like to think.
