The AI Chatbots Have Arrived. How Should We Respond?
Spoiler alert: it’s no longer about knowledge transmission. . .
Good morning, friends :)
For me, it’s a morning in which I begin a weeklong trip across the country to visit some of our country’s most innovative schools and educators (articles and pictures forthcoming).
It feels fitting, then, that my morning paper should greet me with an article about how the latest AI innovation, ChatGPT, is requiring schools and universities to revamp their entire approach to teaching and learning.
“What’s happening in class is no longer going to be, ‘Here are some questions — let’s talk about it between us human beings,’” said one alarmed professor. Instead “it’s like, ‘What also does this alien robot think?’”
Um, yeah. No — But I did try to warn them.
Five years ago, I gave a talk about the growth of AI, the looming arrival of the Technological Singularity, and the reason those developments were an invitation to reimagine what we defined as the core purpose of schooling. (Spoiler alert: it’s no longer about knowledge transmission.)
Of course, I wasn’t the only one, and there are plenty of other beacons that can guide our path forward to make learning less static, more socially embedded, and more intentionally aligned towards the one thing an artificially intelligent chatbot can never replace: knowledge of self.
So, if you’re willing, pour yourself another cup of coffee, give me 18 minutes of your time, and see what you think about my proposal for how we can all start to reimagine the way(s) we live and learn.
This is how we #changethestory . . .
Thank you Sam! Couldn't agree with you more. What a spectacular murmuration.
I'll share it around. Be nice if there were some self-reflective questions for teachers, admin and parents to think about it all.
I recently learned about some AI that is up for a lot of discussion-- its a literary app that writes/creates for you! Schools are buzzing. I also saw an article in the New York Times a few months ago about a man who won an art prize for a painting made by an AI-Art app that took his direction and created a painting.
Pretty wild stuff that needs a lot of talking about now. ( actually after 35 years at least of talking about it we are still doing the same thing... inclulcation of the minds- unfree)
Wishing you well.
MaryBeth
"improvised choreography" yes this is what is happening in the greatest Music ... hence music (with dance) must become front and center in regenerative conversation and dreaming about education because it is currently the closest manifestation or purest lived human example of the murmuration of starlings that we know of ... or, can you or anyone else think of another?