AI-powered chatbot tutors could revolutionize traditional education and benefit students through one-on-one training, according to a UC Berkeley computer science professor.
ChatGPT has already made an impression on students, and the chatbot released last year that can mimic human conversations has attracted younger generations to use. Berkeley professor and leading AI expert Stuart Russell speculates that as the technology develops, it could revolutionize traditional education with ChatGPT-style personalized tutors.
“Education is the greatest benefit we can look to in the coming years,” Russell told the Guardian of AI’s potential impact on education. “It should be possible within a few years, maybe by the end of this decade, to provide every child in the world with a fairly high-quality education. That’s potentially transformative.”
Russell, who attended the United Nations Global Summit on Artificial Intelligence for Good in Geneva last week, believes that personalized chatbots could potentially provide students with “most of their material until high school graduation,” all from their phones or computers.
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Stuart Russell, a professor of computer science at Berkeley, director of the Center for Intelligent Systems, and co-author of the standard textbook “Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach,” presented his paper July 29 at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Buenos Aires. Conference, 2015 AFP PHOTO/JUAN MABROMATA (Photo credit should read JUAN MABROMATA/AFP via Getty Images) (Getty Images)
OpenAI is currently testing a GPT-4-powered virtual tutor program, according to a March announcement in partnership with an educational nonprofit. In its announcement, OpenAI said the program “serves as both a virtual tutor for students and a classroom assistant for teachers.”
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Research shows that one-on-one tutoring is two to three times more beneficial to students than traditional classroom learning, Russell said. He told the Guardian that teachers and their unions may have a “legitimate fear” that “fewer teachers will be employed, and possibly none”. However, he noted to Fox News Digital that he “doesn’t necessarily” believe this will happen, and is more concerned with the “potential added value of AI tutors” than with robots replacing teachers.
“If I were the government or a school district and I had the opportunity to double the quality of education — get most kids going to college level by age 11 or 12 — and increase the number of teachers by 25 percent, I’d take the deal,” Russell said. Tell Fox News the numbers. “Instead of teaching a lesson to a large group of children, teachers would provide instruction to a small group of children, helping them learn to cooperate and so on.”
Empty classrooms. (iStock)
Asked about the use of artificial intelligence in the classroom, a spokesperson for the National Association of Education directed Fox News Digital to a resolution the union passed at its annual meeting detailing that the use of artificial intelligence must “support students and educators.” needs”, “fairness”, convenience, inclusion” and does not contain any bias.
Before outlining guiding principles such as the need for transparency in AI, the resolution states: “The National Education Association believes that the development and expanded use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies will continue to impact students, educators, public education, and the larger community.” and “without compromising the privacy of educators, students, or their families”.
Russell did note that the risks associated with using the technology include the potential to brainwash students, while human involvement in education is still necessary. According to the Guardian article, humans’ roles in education could evolve into roles such as “playground supervisors” or leading civics and ethics lessons or group exercises.
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His comments follow a Danish study “Charismatic” robot found, Those programmed to speak with enthusiasm can have a positive influence on college students, increasing creativity in group projects.
“We haven’t done experiments yet, so we don’t know if an AI system is adequate for a child’s need to be motivated, to learn to cooperate, not just ‘Can I count?'” Russell said. “Ensuring that children’s social aspects are preserved and improved is critical.”
ChatGPT and other chatbots have been so educated that they are “starting to hit a wall” and may soon “run out of the text in the universe for training,” Russell told the UN summit.
MADRID, SPAIN – APRIL 14: ChatGPt website on a tablet on April 14, 2023. ((Photo by Eduardo Parra/Europa Press via Getty Images))
A study released last month that has not yet been peer-reviewed found that ChatGPT was able to successfully complete MIT undergraduate courses in mathematics, computer science and electrical engineering.
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The study, written by 15 experts, including MIT professors, found that chatbots were able to answer course questions 100 percent of the time. However, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education, three MIT students who researched the method claimed they found “clear problems” with the research that essentially allowed ChatGPT to cheat in the course.
The ChatGPT logo and the words AI Artificial Intelligence are seen in this illustration taken on May 4, 2023. (Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustration)
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Since the launch of ChatGPT, the use of artificial intelligence has exploded, and Russell urged caution, declaring that the technology is a tool that can help humanity thrive, but could also “cause terrible harm”. Russell is one of thousands of technologists, leaders and others who have signed an open letter calling for a moratorium on lab AI research so policymakers and lab leaders can “develop and implement a set of A shared security protocol designed for advanced artificial intelligence”.
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“I also signed this letter in the hope that it will (at least) spark a serious and focused conversation among policymakers, tech companies, and the AI research community about what safeguards we need before we move forward. It’s time to say The phrase that this is pure research is long gone,” Russell wrote in a spring op-ed.
