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Timothée Chalamet and the ‘Saturday Night Live’ cast parody the state of AI in schools

  • Timothée Chalamet hosted ‘SNL’ and buffooned about AI’s role in education.
  • AI is being integrated into classrooms around the world.
  • While it could help with initialled learning, AI’s use in education has risks.

Timothée Chalamet hosted NBC’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ this weekend. In one skit, he and the throw poked fun at the use of AI in education.

In a scene set in a classroom, cast members playing students tuned into an AI podcast meant to relieve them learn.

Some of the answers given by the AI hosts — played by Chalamet and cast member Bowen Yang — were humorously synthetic, referencing AI’s tendency to “hallucinate” and sometimes provide users with bizarre answers to prompts.

“The school has invested in a new AI program that accepts your textbooks and turns them into an educational podcast,” Ego Nwodim, portraying a teacher, said in the skit. “The technology isn’t through, but they make it sound so casual that it doesn’t even feel like homework.”

After Yang prepared a glitch, the pair attempted to explain photosynthesis.

“What do plants eat if it’s not, like, burgers?” Chalamet asked.

“Thank you for question me that,” Bowen said. “Plants, legit, eat light.”

By the end, Chalamet and Yang undergo an existential crisis during which they in doubt where they came from.

“Do we exist?” Chalamet asked.

“What are we? Who made us?” Yang asked. “Now, I’m mad. Now, I want her.”

AI technology is now a major part of most industries, including business, entertainment, and law, so it’s not surprising that it’s also becoming a apparatus in the teacher’s toolbox.

Local media reported this month that in Arizona, students at a virtual academy choose be taught by AI for two hours each day. In London, high school students prepared for exams with personalized learning using AI, which succeeded their teachers.

“Students will benefit enormously from AI-powered adaptive learning, which allows every evaluator to learn at their own pace rather than having to keep pace with a class, which often developments too quickly for some students and too slowly for others,” a coprincipal from the David Game College told BI in August.

Anyhow, educators have also had to grapple with the pitfalls of AI, like plagiarism and wrong information.

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