What would happen if we invested as much in education as we have in AGI?
Would we be smarter?
Would we become better companions than robots are?
Would we become better companions than robots are?
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Reason10 · 70-79, M
To bring readers up to speed with this concept...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligence
Artificial general intelligence (AGI)—sometimes called human‑level intelligence AI—is a type of artificial intelligence that would match or surpass human capabilities across virtually all cognitive tasks.[1][2]
Comparing humans to machines? Are you so young that you never heard of the movie "The Matrix?" (Reason I asked, a few years ago I subbed for a high school class where most of the kids never heard of The Matrix or Neo.)
Three items.
1. Is education improved by simply throwing money at it? Wanna tell a teacher that he/she will get a raise only if he/she does a better job and produces a generation of geniuses? Wanna see how that would turn out?
2. Machines have been getting taught to do mundane human tasks for as long as there have been hand held calculators. So many people do as I'm doing right now. Interacting with a machine, rather than discussing matters with another human. So you might have a point after all.
3. One has to be aware of history to see our progress. (I use this example to my students a lot.) When I was in seventh grade, it wasn't called middle school. It was called junior high. A computer cost a million dollars and took up an entire room, and didn't have the computing power of a modern day cell phone. Back then the first hand held calculators cost around $80 and only did addition and subtraction.
When I graduated college and began substitute teaching, the high schools had computer labs, where the only exposure a student would get to a computer would be in the computer lab. Today, from elementary to high school, every classroom has chromebooks, one per student. One Florida county keeps them in the room, hooked up to a charger in a cabinet. Another county issues one per student and they are responsible for the maintenance and charging.
You see things over a period of time and you can't help but marvel at progress. When I saw Captain Kirk flip his phone to ask Scotty to beam him up in the late Sixties, who knew that very flip phone would be in everyone's pocket by the turn of the century.
I love progress and technology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligence
Artificial general intelligence (AGI)—sometimes called human‑level intelligence AI—is a type of artificial intelligence that would match or surpass human capabilities across virtually all cognitive tasks.[1][2]
Comparing humans to machines? Are you so young that you never heard of the movie "The Matrix?" (Reason I asked, a few years ago I subbed for a high school class where most of the kids never heard of The Matrix or Neo.)
Three items.
1. Is education improved by simply throwing money at it? Wanna tell a teacher that he/she will get a raise only if he/she does a better job and produces a generation of geniuses? Wanna see how that would turn out?
2. Machines have been getting taught to do mundane human tasks for as long as there have been hand held calculators. So many people do as I'm doing right now. Interacting with a machine, rather than discussing matters with another human. So you might have a point after all.
3. One has to be aware of history to see our progress. (I use this example to my students a lot.) When I was in seventh grade, it wasn't called middle school. It was called junior high. A computer cost a million dollars and took up an entire room, and didn't have the computing power of a modern day cell phone. Back then the first hand held calculators cost around $80 and only did addition and subtraction.
When I graduated college and began substitute teaching, the high schools had computer labs, where the only exposure a student would get to a computer would be in the computer lab. Today, from elementary to high school, every classroom has chromebooks, one per student. One Florida county keeps them in the room, hooked up to a charger in a cabinet. Another county issues one per student and they are responsible for the maintenance and charging.
You see things over a period of time and you can't help but marvel at progress. When I saw Captain Kirk flip his phone to ask Scotty to beam him up in the late Sixties, who knew that very flip phone would be in everyone's pocket by the turn of the century.
I love progress and technology.