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Illeazar t1_j9utmpi wrote

Reply to What happens to the education system when AI answers our thoughts on demand? by Workerhard62

Same thing that happened when the internet became a thing (or is still in process of happening in many cases).

The things we need to learn change, and shift to adapt to how the works works. You don't need to know the Dewey decimal system anymore, but you need to know how to find information and determine which is credible. You don't need to know how to write cursive anymore, but you do need to know how to present your ideas in a way that other people will be able to understand them.

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asyrin25 t1_j9utgp0 wrote

Reply to comment by Asleep_Barracuda4781 in What happens to the education system when AI answers our thoughts on demand? by Workerhard62

Counterpoint:

Now that my cars and phones have had nav for years, I know how to get to most places within 5 square miles of my house, and that's it.

This is theoretically a problem when I don't have access to the tech.

This has never happened and would take a near apocalypse event to happen.

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Zer0pede t1_j9us962 wrote

Reply to comment by Workerhard62 in What happens to the education system when AI answers our thoughts on demand? by Workerhard62

Have you tried to teach before? Every student learns so differently, and the best teachers are learning while they teach (think of professors who both research in their field and teach, but it applies to other teachers). Students ask fascinating questions. Feynman talks in many places about how much teaching helped his research. Also, office hours are for befriending students because elements of their home life affect how they learn, and you really need to get an idea of how they think.

There’s lots of ways AIs could assist learning and self-education: I’d love to have something that could pre-read books and papers with an eye to subjects I’m interested in and bring those to me. It would also be great if students had something at home that could direct them to parts of a textbook that were relevant to a homework problem they didn’t understand and suggest supplementary materials like videos, but you’re always going to need a human teacher in the mix. Maybe you could save that teacher a lot of stress by having an AI build rough lesson plans and materials that they only had to tweak (teachers can spend all vacation writing a lesson plan), and then the teacher could focus their time on helping students one on one.

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