> "AI is a wonderful tool that offers many possibilities for enhancing education. But it cannot replace teachers, classmates, books, pens, paper, conversation, or experience. " <
Yet.
This is the absolute worst that AI will ever be. It is already to the point where many can be fooled by AI voices and videos, not just images. The time will come, sooner or later, that it is impossible to tell the difference.
The argument that there are things AI can't do, is flawed unless you include the "Yet" at the end. More important is the question of what it should do. When it can be a better human than a human, what then should our value be to each other?
This is, I believe, the stronger version of your argument. Not that AI will never gain the ability to replace us, but that even if it can, it shouldn't.
You are overlooking the fact that the education system and too many of its teachers have spent the last 30 years brain washing children to believe in moral codes devoid of truth and reason and so-called facts that are at best questionable and patently false in some cases. Having bought into postmodernism with little regard for any other and more valid thinking the teaching profession has brought itself into disrepute and done enormous and probably irrecoverable damage to generations.
If teachers did as you suggest, and what they are supposed to do, the young people of today would not be half the confused, empty wrecks that so many are, unable to see the world for what it is and bereft of any ability to navigate their way out of the hole they have been put in.
I think the way forward for many will be selective on-line education including AI augmented by extra curricular activities. The opportunity for schools is to set up short period summer camps, for example, which ensure gaps in education are not missed. However, they will have to resist taking the opportunity to fill the kid's heads with nonsense and get on with the actual job.
I have no sympathy for the plight in which the education system has put itself and expect it will only be remedied when it faces some hard truths. This will require a lot of current teachers to be put out to pasture as lost causes.
The character qualities that make life worth living can be learned and developed only in relationships and interaction with our fellow humans.
> "AI is a wonderful tool that offers many possibilities for enhancing education. But it cannot replace teachers, classmates, books, pens, paper, conversation, or experience. " <
Yet.
This is the absolute worst that AI will ever be. It is already to the point where many can be fooled by AI voices and videos, not just images. The time will come, sooner or later, that it is impossible to tell the difference.
The argument that there are things AI can't do, is flawed unless you include the "Yet" at the end. More important is the question of what it should do. When it can be a better human than a human, what then should our value be to each other?
This is, I believe, the stronger version of your argument. Not that AI will never gain the ability to replace us, but that even if it can, it shouldn't.
Union free humans please. School Choice Now!
You are overlooking the fact that the education system and too many of its teachers have spent the last 30 years brain washing children to believe in moral codes devoid of truth and reason and so-called facts that are at best questionable and patently false in some cases. Having bought into postmodernism with little regard for any other and more valid thinking the teaching profession has brought itself into disrepute and done enormous and probably irrecoverable damage to generations.
If teachers did as you suggest, and what they are supposed to do, the young people of today would not be half the confused, empty wrecks that so many are, unable to see the world for what it is and bereft of any ability to navigate their way out of the hole they have been put in.
I think the way forward for many will be selective on-line education including AI augmented by extra curricular activities. The opportunity for schools is to set up short period summer camps, for example, which ensure gaps in education are not missed. However, they will have to resist taking the opportunity to fill the kid's heads with nonsense and get on with the actual job.
I have no sympathy for the plight in which the education system has put itself and expect it will only be remedied when it faces some hard truths. This will require a lot of current teachers to be put out to pasture as lost causes.