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Students who don’t use AI are ahead on every measure
‘equivalent to being around one year of schooling ahead of their peers’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcRY6M5_mvo&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260908-students-who-dont-use-ai-are-ahead-on-every-measure - podcast
time: 4 min 14 sec
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/08/students-who-dont-use-ai-are-ahead-on-every-measure/ - blog post
@davidgerard If $10,000 is deposited your cash app account or PayPal unexpectedly , what will you use it for to be honest ?
:A car
:B Bills
:c school
:d families
:e vacation
:l donation
:g food stuff
:h business
i had several "correlation is not causation" wankers on the youtube and mf did i fucking say it was
also, rich students tend to do better than poor ones, amazing
@davidgerard why do you even give in to them. Ignore them. You know you do your research and some stupid Youtube comments are unlikely to give you any constructive criticism worth listening to.
@Albi oh there's a much better button than merely ignore, it's 🚫
@davidgerard yeaa, but that's effort and I don't think they are worth even that much.
@davidgerard @zzt first of all i believe it is important to state that the OECD itself recognises that these results can't establish causality. secondly it needs to be said that the headline is not only misleading but rejects truth. see this plot from page 140 of the report. OECD puts it like this
> those who reported using AI to help them learn frequently […] tend to slightly outperform their peers
i believe unreflected criticism it to be dangerous and unhealthy
@davidgerard Learn how *not* to use AI or you'll get left behind! 😂
So let me get this straight, Management can’t calculate ROI, AI is more expensive than human workers, And human workers dance on AI heads?
But it’s management who’s decided it’s the way to go. Seems to me that the compensation scale of management is just a wee bit overrated.
Also, you know if you get rid of all the human under length who does management have to blame when things go desperately wrong?
@davidgerard "you don't want to be left behind, do you?" being the AI booster taunt makes this extra funny
@davidgerard “one year of schooling” holy shit when I was growing up if you were one year behind your peers they started asking if you were on drugs
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@davidgerard
Technically rich students should have access to better llms. So they would be using them to learn if it helped.
I believe that when you are better you tend to see the mistakes of llms and it makes them offputting.
So i think there's possibly two effects with retroaction:
Being better makes llms offputting making you use them less.
Using llms less makes you better over time making them even more offputting to you.