This was really interesting, although it made think differently from you in some points, maybe because of the generation difference.
Let's be honest, at school, we just spent most of our times bored, or learning something we did not want to. Being of the generation that was born with phones, it was not as if I was sucked into a blackhole of information, I WANTED to somehow optimize my time with something I found to be better. This is what justified boredom.
We all have this subconscious idea of time optimisation. And in every class I had back in my mind the same mental dialogue "when I get home, I'll just watch a YouTube video about this theme, and I'll probably learn this 5x faster and better than here". Now with AI, I think you can not only learn faster, but personally tailor how and what you want to be taught much more efficiently.
So indeed, the bar for teachers have gone pretty high, and we are just getting started in the AI revolution. Even me, in my fourth year of medschool get caught myself drifting and instead asking for an AI to explain something generally complex, and have a pretty satisfying discussion with it.
My conclusion from this is that if AI at the level of gpt-4o was used as a teaching tool in itself, it might decrease this "wandering mind" that alumni tend to have in normal classes, because of the time optimisation. When you use AI, it's all about input and output, you have to engage with it to receive. Differently from normal human teaching in a class with >≈ 40 students, where the teacher will just keep talking, regardless if you are following or interested.
This was really interesting, although it made think differently from you in some points, maybe because of the generation difference.
Let's be honest, at school, we just spent most of our times bored, or learning something we did not want to. Being of the generation that was born with phones, it was not as if I was sucked into a blackhole of information, I WANTED to somehow optimize my time with something I found to be better. This is what justified boredom.
We all have this subconscious idea of time optimisation. And in every class I had back in my mind the same mental dialogue "when I get home, I'll just watch a YouTube video about this theme, and I'll probably learn this 5x faster and better than here". Now with AI, I think you can not only learn faster, but personally tailor how and what you want to be taught much more efficiently. So indeed, the bar for teachers have gone pretty high, and we are just getting started in the AI revolution. Even me, in my fourth year of medschool get caught myself drifting and instead asking for an AI to explain something generally complex, and have a pretty satisfying discussion with it.
My conclusion from this is that if AI at the level of gpt-4o was used as a teaching tool in itself, it might decrease this "wandering mind" that alumni tend to have in normal classes, because of the time optimisation. When you use AI, it's all about input and output, you have to engage with it to receive. Differently from normal human teaching in a class with >≈ 40 students, where the teacher will just keep talking, regardless if you are following or interested.