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6.6.1 Impact on Education

Universities

The future of teaching is to private AI tutors. It is clear by now that people can learn much more from a private AI tutor, tailored for them instead of in a general class room.

  1. Personally Tailored programs. A student coming from mathematics can already skip certain courses e.g calculus and linear algebra if it wants to switch to a physics degree for instance. On top of that a student will only move on to the next subject if it understand the prerequisites well enough to move on.
  2. Standardized examination: Universities and schools can share their examination questions in one big pool for a particular subject. Then an AI is trained to make similar questions out of it. These can then be examined 
  3. Story Telling: An AI tutor can tell the story of the life of an inventor, scientists and why things were revolutionary, out of the box e.g math duels for instance. In this way a student learns by evolution and not just learn tricks on how to solve things without understanding where they came from. 
  4. Instant Feedback and personalized pacing: An AI tutor can provide instant feedback for any question you are dealing with inside a curriculum. Regardless if it is 2 in the night or 2 in the afternoon in the weekends. 
  5. Scheduling: It could schedule for you during your day when you can learn and at which moments you need have certain skills s.t you can be ready for examination at the due date. 
  6. Traditional Universities may soon become more primarily credentialing institutions that you have the skills that you say you have rather than knowledge delivery systems as it was back in the days. 
  7. It allows remote learning without being stuck to a physical place. 

What AI Tutors don't do

  1. Instead of the university holding you accountable for studying it is the AI that will hold you accountable. It is of course a lot easier to procrastinate if it is an AI bot that you can just turn of. Even though lectures are not mandatory they do hold you more accountable to show up for certain events. 
  2. Developing social skills: This is a major one! basically creating friends and go through the same struggle together. This is some real bonding and creates lots of laughs and empathy development. 
  3. Enthusiasm and Passion from other class mates that make you want to study what you study. In the end as greatly said by Christopher McCandless: "Happiness is only real when shared"
  4. Struggle: If a program is not tailored to your learning curve you are forced to perform in moments you could also procrastinate. As well people learn through not getting an extra hint, not knowing how to solve a problem, going through texts ideas to finally come up with a next step. This struggle is a really valuable skill and mindset that you learn only through not being able to get a hint or get the answer. With AI you can always ask for another hint or the answer if you feel like you can't solve a problem. The question is what is enough struggle and to what extend could time be used more wisely to move on and develop instead of wasting it searching for things.