Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

This is quite a good article, and while I know there are AI sceptics, especially when it comes to teaching, it would be well worth reading this, not so much as a list of things to do with AI, but for its focus on the really pragmatic and practical uses to which it can be put. In none of these is the teacher's judgment being replaced by AI; rather, what we see is an emphasis on saving time and improving quality in rote tasks. The author uses AI to update examples in a debating textbook, for example, instead of not doing this at all. Or for looking up 'Boltzmann brains' to learn something about which he knows nothing. Or writing camp reports where this would have been impossible previously. Turning "distribution into a five-minute job instead of an hour of clicking." 

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