Google Is Bringing Gemini Access To Teens Using Their School Accounts (techcrunch.com) 15
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Google announced on Monday that it's bringing its AI technology Gemini to teen students using their school accounts, after having already offered Gemini to teens using their personal accounts. The company is also giving educators access to new tools alongside this release. Google says that giving teens access to Gemini can help prepare them with the skills they need to thrive in a future where generative AI exists. Gemini will help students learn more confidently with real-time feedback, the company believes.
Google claims it will not use data from chats with students to train and improve its AI models, and has taken steps to ensure it's bringing this technology to students responsibly. Gemini has guardrails that will prevent inappropriate responses, such as illegal or age-gated substances, from appearing in responses. It will also actively recommend teens use its double-check feature to help them develop information literacy and critical thinking skills. Gemini will be available to teen students while using their Google Workspace for Education accounts in English in more than 100 countries. Gemini will be off by default for teens until admins choose to turn it on. Google also announced that it's launching its Read Along in Classroom feature worldwide to help students improve reading skills with real-time support. Educators can assign grade-level or phonics-based reading activities and receive insights on students' reading accuracy, speed, and comprehension.
Google claims it will not use data from chats with students to train and improve its AI models, and has taken steps to ensure it's bringing this technology to students responsibly. Gemini has guardrails that will prevent inappropriate responses, such as illegal or age-gated substances, from appearing in responses. It will also actively recommend teens use its double-check feature to help them develop information literacy and critical thinking skills. Gemini will be available to teen students while using their Google Workspace for Education accounts in English in more than 100 countries. Gemini will be off by default for teens until admins choose to turn it on. Google also announced that it's launching its Read Along in Classroom feature worldwide to help students improve reading skills with real-time support. Educators can assign grade-level or phonics-based reading activities and receive insights on students' reading accuracy, speed, and comprehension.
Really? (Score:2)
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What could possibility go wrong? Let the wargames begin.
Honestly, this shit is starting to look like Card's Endgame on steroids.
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In your dreams. Schools at all levels are already spending real money for tools to detect papers written by AI from cheating students, and Google is marketing it's AI to students?
Yeah, that's gonna go places.
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What could possibility go wrong? Let the wargames begin.
More like AI-generated 'revenge porn' wars
Game plan (Score:5, Interesting)
Google says that giving teens access to Gemini can help prepare them with the skills they need to thrive in a future where generative AI exists. Gemini will help students learn more confidently with real-time feedback, the company believes.
Get 'em hooked on it early so they won't be able to think for themselves or live w/o it, then you can subtly steer them to your liking.
(Sounds like something from Philip Morris)
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And 'ai' is nothing but a marketing buzzword.
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I don't think it's quite that evil. More like get them hooked and then charge a subscription fee.
The only thing I'm calling Gemini (Score:2)
The only software I will call Gemini the name Gemini alone is the Gemini Protocol [geminiprotocol.net]. It is a seriously decent replacement for Gopher, with ton's of implementations.
Schools should be showing students how to (Score:2)
Illogical (Score:2)
Now imagine introducing into these education systems a tool that enables pupils & students to avoid thinking deeply. Pupils/students will have LLMs summarise & synthesise information from variou
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We learn best when we think deeply about certain things in certain ways. Our education systems are basically set up with this objective in mind. However, our brains are hard-wired to conserve energy & deep thinking is particularly energetic, so we only think hard when there's no other option available. Now imagine introducing into these education systems a tool that enables pupils & students to avoid thinking deeply. Pupils/students will have LLMs summarise & synthesise information from various sources, no understanding, evaluating, selecting, & generating of ideas involved. These are the very activities that make us smarter & we're about to effectively cut this off from our next generation of engineers, architects, medical practitioners, scientists, law enforcement, urban planning, etc.. This is a giant leap closer to Idiocracy. We need to ban LLMs in education & only let in that which has been shown to be beneficial &/or adapt curricular so that LLMs can be used without "dumbing down" future generations of creative problem solvers in our education systems. Otherwise, qualifications will quickly become meaningless.
Honestly, this tends to go hand-in-hand with the way education has been treated in the US for a few generations now. It's absolutely not about teaching methodologies to think, it's about making sure kids "don't think too much" because thinkers tend to be problem creators in the workplace. It's about making perfect cogs. And this move will make even better cogs, because all thinking must be done by the machines.
We won't fight a war against the machines, Terminator style. We'll just slowly succumb to them thr
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The problem I see here is an old one; that US & other wester
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The problem I see here is an old one; that US & other western govts allow corporations & billionaires too much influence in education & don't listen enough to the people who study how we learn & the best ways to facilitate that. That's why south east Asian countries, who take education experts more seriously, consistently top the OECD PISA test results.
We've decided corporate profits are the most important part of a society, and now we're dealing with the consequences of allowing that to shape policy over these many decades. Guess we'll see if that works out for the billionaires long-term, when they have no one left to train into their workforce. If the AI gambit works? hey, they're golden. If it doesn't? Gonna be a very interesting few decades, some of which I'll get to see on my way out the door.
even 1.5 PRO is terrible (Score:1)