I am in education (level about high school/AP macro economics)
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The last is the most important I think. What is the place of education in todays world. What should a kid of fifteen years old learn to be prepared for what is coming? I don't know because I don't know what is coming.
One thing I do know. Learning from a machine is a paradox. Yes you can learn better and faster with the help of a machine. But if the machine can teach it to you, than the machine can probably do it. And why would we want to learn things that a machine can do? To learn the things a machine can not do, we need humans. But that only works if there are things a machine cannot do.
The kid of fifteen wil be 25 in ten years. Ten years is a lot. I do not know what to tell them because I do not know. Love to hear more input on this.
That's a good discussion topic too, but the question I was actually asking wasn't "how can AI be used in education" or "how do AI tools affect education". I was asking about implications for the process of human learning - how curricula and practice should be designed, given what we now know about eg what training methods are more effective for neural networks and why.
Even the most basic aspects of the design and training of artificial neural networks seem (to me) to have large implications for the education of humans. Just the fact that complex information can be represented as a point in a shared high-dimensional Euclidean latent space seems to overturn centuries of philosophy and psychology. People used to argue about the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, but now there are massively multilingual language models that render that debate not just resolved but obsolete.
However, when I try to explain something like latent spaces to someone involved in education, it seems to come across merely as: <math people> invented <math thing> that's <interesting for some nerds>.
The people here are interested in both AI and approaches to learning, right? What's an implication that you think the design and training of neural networks has for education? How would you explain it to ordinary people?