Re:AI breakthrough ChatGPT raises alarm over student cheating
by tokipin on Monday December 19, 2022 @06:36PM
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> There is value in teaching humans to communicate and synthesize information.
I'm not sure this is so significant. Humans naturally communicate and synthesize information. The school system is like a stick that pokes and prods the tip of the iceberg to try to nudge it here or there. By comparison, people's interests, skills, and drives play such an overwhelming role that I think we could chop off several years off the standard education curriculum and be better off.
I would argue the main limitation isn't education, but the opportunity for a student to pursue what their instincts are telling them to pursue. This is difficult today because school is designed for scale at the expense of being one size fits all. This is because teachers are a limited resource, not because it's the ideal way to do things. AI has the potential to provide more targeted education, where different students could take wildly different paths.
I'm not sure this is so significant. Humans naturally communicate and synthesize information. The school system is like a stick that pokes and prods the tip of the iceberg to try to nudge it here or there. By comparison, people's interests, skills, and drives play such an overwhelming role that I think we could chop off several years off the standard education curriculum and be better off.
I would argue the main limitation isn't education, but the opportunity for a student to pursue what their instincts are telling them to pursue. This is difficult today because school is designed for scale at the expense of being one size fits all. This is because teachers are a limited resource, not because it's the ideal way to do things. AI has the potential to provide more targeted education, where different students could take wildly different paths.