AI in the service of education – an introduction

So what did we have? There were tutorials, a word processor, the Internet, Wikipedia, a smart phone and TikTok… And how did all these affect the education systems in the world? Not at all! The education systems (all over the world) have developed wonderful abilities to ignore, to cancel, to belittle most of the existing technologies. My granddaughter studies in the same classroom that I studied, at the same hours, with the same teacher (now her name is Inbal or Adi and not Hedva or Rivka) and with the same methods, with negligible use of available technologies.

Why would an artificial intelligence that understands our questions and answers them in a unique and sometimes even creative way (such as ChatGPT) change anything? After all, it is clear that it will be forbidden (at least formally) for students to use. To be honest, I’m not sure that the revolution will happen right now. However if you look at industrial revolutions in the world you can see that they don’t happen suddenly, but are built up gradually, improvement after improvement and suddenly one last straw and they surround you from everywhere.

For example, the first car (without rails) was invented in 1770 with a steam engine and traveled at a speed of 4 km/h, and then came a steering system (1862), an internal combustion engine on gas (1867), an engine on fuel (1876), an assembly line (by Oldsmobile 1902), then came the last straw, Henry Ford, who sold 170,000 Model T cars (1913) within a year and here we have a revolution.

So it is possible that the artificial intelligence will be another application that does not move the education system, but I have a strong feeling that it has the shape of a straw and it smells like a straw and tastes like the last straw that will break the back.

By the way, I asked ChatGPT the same question (how will it affect the education system) and here is the answer: “Although I (the system) was not specifically designed for education, ChatGPT may help in a variety of ways such as: personalized learning; learning a new language by conversing or writing; perfecting abilities such as communication and problems solving with the help of conversation simulations…”, and at the end another line was added “ChatGPT is not a substitute for a teacher but only a tool” (it turns out she also studied politics).

And on a personal note – while playing with the system, I sometimes received stupid answers that I would expect the system to understand that they don’t make sense, and sometimes surprising and stunning original answers that you can’t believe a machine gave. This, in my opinion, is the main problem that the developers of the system are facing – to find a way for the machine to develop logic, and I am not at all sure that this is possible.

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