Re:China has started a grand experiment in AI education
by scottlegrand2 on Friday August 02, 2019 @01:22PM
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I'm going to disagree here. I have enough understanding of AI to have built a deep learning framework from first principles. That deep learning framework makes a pile of money for Amazon to this day.
That I know how it works because I wrote the thing doesn't take away from the miracle that it makes that kind of money for doing complicated but not all that complicated stuff.
When I look at generative adversarial networks and the recent attention-based language models I am similarly amazed at what they can do.
But I am also 100% aware of their limitations and I think the hype that they are near-term AGI technology is the real magical thinking.
That's why you see a race for obscurity -- lots of jargon to describe the complexity of the system.
In reality, good educational software is about good design, good goal alignment, good assessments, good sequencing, good intervention material -- it's all based on classic instructional design, not a superior algorithm. Has the software been set up to support data driven continuous improvement? That is more important than an algorithm.