I guess I missed this, but the purpose of Melania Trump's walking with a robot

[senseandsensibility]

was to promote the idea of robots as educators. I know that Rs will do anything to break teachers' unions and privatize schools so they can grift off the government funding. But this is a new one.

I tuned out that spectacle a couple of days ago as I do with almost everything done by MT or her husband. But Randy Weingarten was just on MSNOW and explained that that was the gist of it. And she said that the LAST thing today's school children need is a roboticized teacher. And I agree as a former teacher.

[Joinfortmill]

1. Are they nuts? Of course, why do I ask?

[CoopersDad]

2. The institution is largely designed to spit out indoctrinated graduates.

To keep out the influence of empathetic or critical thinking human instructors, robots can be preloaded to provide identical instruction to each learner, no matter what age or locations.

If you want a docile subservient brainwashed population, robot teachers are the way to get there.

Former teacher and administrator in the California public education system.

[mercuryblues]

3. I can see the 1st day of freshman year

Gang up and dismantle the teacher. Hack the teacher.

LOL

[Wednesdays]

6. Won't happen. See reply #5. nt

[YepYep]

4. Whoa do they not remember the Covid shutdown?

Th kids would log into the zoom call and then play games. Or they would put up a wallpaper and walk away. Call the parents, they wouldn’t answer, either at work or somewhere else. The student that wants to learn , deals with a teacher who doesn’t care. A teacher who looks for correct data. Having a bad day? Did not eat breakfast because I’d reasons Teacher doesn’t care.

[Traildogbob]

5. The repubs

Would then make sure all the robots are armed. None of those WOKE teachers that will not carry into their classroom. What could go wrong?

[flvegan]

7. The words "Melania Trump" and "educator" should NEVER co-exist in such a manner.

[mr715]

8. It was an experiment to see if AI robots can feel despair.

[littlemissmartypants]

16. Zing!!

[hatrack]

23. Just about choked on a chip when I read that . .

You damn near killed me!!

[leftstreet]

25. LOL

[struggle4progress]

9. "I love the poorly educated"

[Boomerproud]

10. Public education has been set up to fail by the powers that be for one reason.

Education is the great equalizer.

[louis-t]

11. I thought maybe it was to prove that she wasn't one.

You know, put them side by side to show she isn't as stiff as the artificial life form.

[senseandsensibility]

12. Maybe it served a dual purpose?

[malaise]

13. Meh

It was a pathetic response to the spectacular robot display in Shanghai.

[IronLionZion]

14. Just wait until the AI Robots unionize

then we're all going to get it. FAFO.

[Mblaze]

15. How can they turn our children into automatons

Unless they train them with automatons?

[BattleRow]

18. Faux Noise turned a lot of folks into MAGATs

Without automatons...oh.wait...

[Mblaze]

21. That's true 😀

[MLWR]

17. Anyone who is "influenced" by Melanoma in any way needs to have his/her head examined.

[johnp3907]

19. You sure that's the purpose?

I think it was to see if anyone could tell which one was supposedly a human being.

[Javaman]

20. Yeah that'll work

🙄

Most would be dismantled before the end of its first day in a real school

[hatrack]

22. I thought it was an effort to humanize Melania . . .

[LuvLoogie]

24. She was demonstrating her replacement.

The 1st LADY 4.0

[patphil]

26. Nothing motivates a student to learn like an uncaring, unthinking, unfeeling machine teaching them.

[OAITW r.2.0]

27. This would be a education ender.

[PATRICK]

28. Insane science

Waste of tech on a robotized supple body just so it can staple book reports in a human body fashion? They recently showed a full robot turning packages to barcode that was totally unnecessary since a (rejected) set of mechanical pincers can do the same automated job, ignoring that real world details make too much mechanization extremely expensive and impractical, and, as with AI, leaving a lot of slop to clean up for humans. The Bushes tried to launder and educational company with dumbed down crap, a scheme where they make America pay to cookie cutter more Bush intellectual pygmies.

Our low bar hope is this is only an absurd scheme to siphon off initial investment in the fake junk like buying housing plots on Mars.