Imogen West-Knights is absolutely right about us losing brain power to artificial intelligence bots (ChatGpt has a use, but I still hate it. I also believe that creative imagination is a muscle and requires that exercise. She also means that it can revolutionize scientific endeavors. My field of weather prediction will soon be revolutionised by machine learning (a kind of AI) and become fully aware of past weather patterns and predict what kind of weather will come. But write a Best Man speech, leave a speech for work colleagues, and write a letter to a dear friend? Do we really want to blend in with brainless people who use AI to understand our own emotions?
If I say to someone “I love you,” do they want to hear it from me or the bot? There is also another concern. The AI output has no audit trail and no clues to its source. The sauce is Wild West. Anyone – good, bad, indifferent – can feed, program, and bias it. As you say Imogen, if you end up in the woods in the “analogic way” with the ability to think unharmedly, I am happy to join you. Hopefully others will do too.
Murraydale
Hale, Cornwall
Imogen West-Knights shares off-road hatred to chat about tasks that make us human. And while I share her concerns (I couldn't make them better), there's an additional thing that bothers me: if students experience their entire school at their fingertips with all this knowledgeable solution technology, how will their critical thinking skills develop?
Students in the literature class are not given books such as the great Gatsby, so they can reflux the plot at dinner 20 years later. Rather, it allows us to understand the interconnectedness of class disparities, wealth and social atmosphere after World War I, and can be similar to what we are today.
They learn multivariate calculations not because they are needed to buy groceries, but because they are needed to make their brains strong and adaptable.
And because they have not studied history, they can repeat “Victoria 1837, Edward VII 1901, George V 1910, Edward VII 1936, George VI 1936, Elizabeth II 1952” over and over again, but to understand that it has led to war, legislative changes and economic crises.
The technology that makes the job easier has always been fascinating and will always be. The use of AI has already been ramped up in secondary schools and universities.
However, when ChatGpt turns 3 in a few months, preschoolers are also beginning to go to kindergarten. And will they guarantee that in the next few years their answer to everything will be “asking ChatGpt”?
Ignaciolandibar
Berlin, Germany
