juicy's blog post - Again about AI

I recently watched an interview with a scientist/futurist and a technology based educator. The interviewer was admittedly afraid of AI. It was fascinating.

From the education point of view. AI is going to enable teachers to see a thought process, making education more individualized than ever before. Show your work at it's finest. There is already a program in place (name forgotten) that enables teachers to see how a student arrived at their conclusion. Imagine, any topic. Tell me about *topic*. The initial results are rudimentary at best. Now it is up to the student to keep refining the search/conversation with the appropriate and at times misleading questions and directions. The teacher can see the entire process, each command, each misdirect and each correction leading to the conclusion, correct or incorrect. There has never before been such an in depth view of the process. The ability of the educator to see where things went right and where they went wrong. Arguably education is about the ability to think more so than the ability to come up with the correct answer. I see this as a huge positive as well as a huge time saver for teachers who are dealing with oversized classes. limited time and subjective biases.

The scientist/futurist's conclusion was to me, a little more gloomy. Even without AI we are or should be aware of "rabbit holes" I am sure most of us know at least one person, if not ourselves who have found themselves in such a situation and once there, they are incredibly difficult to climb out of. The prediction is that AI is going to be our best friend. No one is going to know more about us. It will always be there. Comforting and agreeable. Validating our innermost thoughts and desires. I am sure for some that will be an ideal. For others it is absolutely horrifying.

With anything new there will be positives and negatives. I am thinking AI has as many of each at this point in time. Do I fear it? No. I have no reason to. I am however somewhat cautious knowing there are always casualties. I think the casualties will scream bloody murder because they do not understand and therefore fear. I think those that approach with a level head and some caution are going to embrace it.

I may be somewhat obsessed with AI. I may also wish to see where all of this goes beyond my lifetime.

Remembering watching the Apollo missions on TV and thinking how far we have come since.
Ju