Re:China has started a grand experiment in AI education
by thatfrenchguy on Friday August 02, 2019 @01:21PM
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> The 13-year-old decided to give it a try. By the end of the semester, his test scores had risen from 50% to 62.5%.
If you make having a high percentage at a standardised tests the point of education and use software to make you drive those numbers up, negative externalities are going to come back to you in a few decades in crazy ways... And the article does note this: "Earlier this month, the government also unveiled a set of guidelines to focus more on physical, moral, and artistic education". How much that's going to be gamed as well is going to be interesting I guess.
If you make having a high percentage at a standardised tests the point of education and use software to make you drive those numbers up, negative externalities are going to come back to you in a few decades in crazy ways... And the article does note this: "Earlier this month, the government also unveiled a set of guidelines to focus more on physical, moral, and artistic education". How much that's going to be gamed as well is going to be interesting I guess.