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How does AI replace the fact that you have to actually learn something? Sure I can ask a mythical AI to explain fourier transforms or bessel functions. But that
by ecshafer 4y ago
How does AI replace the fact that you have to actually learn something? Sure I can ask a mythical AI to explain fourier transforms or bessel functions. But that doesn't mean I actually know it. A degree implies that you know at least a majority of a set of knowledge, you have learned to articulate your ideas, you have learned to stick it through the tough parts. AI does not replace that. We already have millions of courses on youtube, millions of tutorials online, what does AI offer that they don't? At minimum, a university provides the deadline to actually finish reading that book by monday, AND you must understand it enough to write that essay. AI can't offer that.
- echelon 4y agoYou don't need $90,000/yr per student to dispense an exam or grade an essay. If you need it to provide deadlines for you, then there's something wrong. Not that deadlines can't automatically be created on the cheap either. I've hired a lot of folks whose highest level of education was high school. And they work right along MIT and Stanford grads just fine.
- adam_arthur 4y agoAI can replace the teachers, TAs and a large portion of the operational cost of colleges, that's for sure. Office hours 24/7 via conversational AI. The process of learning and assessing that result can largely be automated once AI is sufficiently powerful. If you look at the pace of advancement, it's really not that far off. Pay $x to be certified in skill y, and learn towards that test via AI. The only reason Colleges still exist in their current form is cultural inertia... an incredibly inefficient way to improve your skills