Today, when I surfed on Linkedin, found the post of Bill Gates:
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6512291169169395712
He went to a school in Chicago, to find answers for future education.
I think he will not find the right answer in the classroom. Indeed it is an excellent place to have an impression for the proper solution.
Last week I also attended a cultural event where the main topic was: Will robots take our job? There was a statement which told: Teachers safe from job replacement. The presentation contained the following image:
The guests of the table of mine was laughing, because before the presentation I described why the teachers job in danger:
In the past months, I spend a lot of time with cognitive intelligence and holographic avatar topic. I think this is the right way to accelerate the education quality to the 21st century. If you use AI with Holographic avatars, you can have one on one connection with the student. With classical education, you will never reach this level of personality. AI avatar able to focus on emotional feedback on content, and ready to recognize the student focus on the topic. This way of teaching gives a better understanding of the student focus on different fields from early elementary school. The young generation will never use mobile while in class when the AI avatar teaching.
To have impression how it works, you can check Soul machines demo video, how they replaced a physical teacher with AI avatar:
I know this is only the beginning, but imagine how it will scale education to a different magnitude level? It will be a more personalized experience than MOOC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course), which already has great success.
These technology developments will able to distribute the knowledge event to the poorest regions! As we could not find enough teacher on the job market, this is also a field where AI can help to solve the world problems.
Imagine, if a student focus tracked from the beginning of school until entering the job market, how it helps in the carrier orientation?
But, until we can use this technology on a global scale, we also need to solve problems:
Need AI in all languages, to be able to teach in every language
We need fluent speech, which needed for proper experience
And last but not least content!
These developments will help to learn cooperation between human and AI for future generations! This skill is elementary if we want to survive in a job market where AI will dominate in the future!