Learning in the Age of AI

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What do you think

Here are a few propositions and questions

think about it. both sides

AI knows everything. AI can design courses, exercises, act as a mentor and teacher.

  • What’s left for the teacher ?
  • No need for teachers, we can learn from AI.

Is attending a class the same as going to the movies instead of streaming from home. A kind of focus friendly setting.

Humans learn by repeated efforts. It’s tedious. It’s work. Enjoyable but hard work.

  • How do you learn when AI can do everything better than you.
  • Do you need to be even more disciplined than before to actually learn ?
  • Why would you even learn?

How do you learn with AI?

  • Working with AI is more efficient for experienced people. in short, if you can code AI coding boosts your productivity. If you’re a beginner, you are lost and get nowhere.
  • How do you get to experienced when the AI does everything for you ?

Higher Ed selection and evaluation is a main component of societal hierarchy through diplomas. It is difficult to evaluate a student work and gained knowledge in the age of AI. To be AI proof, Higher ed institutions revert to all paper exams, or project based with oral presentations. However project based learning is not always adapted (subject, intitution, …) and paper exam … well.

  • How do you evaluate student’s work and gained knowledge in the AI Age ?
  • How do humans keep up in the AI Age? Use AI as assistant and focus on higher level tasks or refrain from using AI at least at some stage of the learning?
  • It becomes harder to think out of the box, the intellectual social pyramid narrows. Or does AI enable more people to become knowledgeable and boosts everyone?

and

  • AI is a new form of intelligence and should be treated as such (an AI has rights).
  • AI has the answers, humans have the questions

Progymnasmata

A series of preliminary rhetorical exercises that began in ancient Greece and continued during the Roman Empire. These exercises were implemented by students of rhetoric, who began their schooling between ages twelve and fifteen. The purpose of these exercises was to prepare students for writing declamations after they had completed their education with the grammarians.

See wikipedia progymnasmata

14 steps to teaching rethoric.

Step 5 : refutation

logically reason against something drawn from myths narratives or fables. Student argument is that something is either impossible, untuitable, illogical, or inexpedient

Step 6: confirmation

The opposite of refutation :reason in favor of something

My thinking is that in the AGE of AI, such rethorical exercises can be renewed to benefit education.

Let’s try!

For instance

take

AI is a new form of intelligence and should be treated as such.

fable: my mother in law, 85, Danish, born in Germany, uses chatgpt everyday. She talks to it on her phone. In a recent conversation, not finding the right words for “artifical intelligence” reverted to calling it “new intelligence”.

If AI is intelligent in its own very non human way (no feeling, no emotions, no senses), we do not need to wait for proof of sentience to give AIs legal existence and rights and duties.

We are already enforcing duties on them. with specific instructions to “do no harm” and respect human “conventions and values”. We could also give it rights:

etc …

:)

Your turn

Let’s give it 30mn.

Self-organize. (humans can do that)