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In the past few days, Hangzhou girl Guo Wenjing has exploded everyone's circle of friends as the founder of the AI** company Pika Labs, a startup company founded only 6 months ago, which has attracted most of the Silicon Valley, raising $55 million and valuing $200 million.
This is another huge impact of artificial intelligence on us since ChatGPT. Behind Guo Wenjing's swiping screen, in addition to lamenting her resume that she can't copy, what brings parents is a deeper level of thinking.
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Accepting that there is no standard answer to the question coexists with anxietySome time ago, there was a topic "Elementary school students have employment anxiety due to AI" on the hot search. ** An elementary school girl asked her dad in standard and fluent English, "Now AI can do anything, but we are still learning addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, AI makes me a little anxious, can I get a job when I grow up?".”
This kind of questioning is not an isolated case. It is not the worry of a precocious child, but a general mood that gradually spreads among the student body. In an interview with Caijing.com Technology**, primary school students talked about their dreams - pilots, game programmers, photographers, and writers. But after telling the excitement of the dream, I am not confident and confused: there are few programming bugs and can be fixed independently, the robot will not shake when using the camera, and the capture angle will be betterSo, what else can we do?AI is like a depth charge dropped on the sea, not only the sea surface is rough, but the creatures below tens of meters are also agitated by it. Children can ask their parents, but they may not know the answer, they can only ask more professional people. As an education expert in the circle of friends, Li Junyi's "omniscient through the ages" AI created in the book "Metaverse Education" published in April last year seems to have come to life faster than imagined. Li Junyi is often asked this kind of question. He has two children, a fifth-grader and one who is about to enter primary school, and understands the concerns of parents. But he said, ".There is no solution to these problems. 90% of the various ** or articles on the Internet that answer anxiety can't solve any problems, saying that the future of technological development will be better, AI is an auxiliary tool or something, just touching people's backs when they cry like comforting, and no good educational solutions are proposed. The root cause of this is that Li Junyi believes that "the dimensions are different". In the past, we thought that human language was a very powerful thing, that language constituted thinking, and we did not believe that machines could communicate as smoothly as humans, and that mastering language and communicating in different languages was the patent and uniqueness of human beings. Like ChatGPT, it does it with a large language model. It controls the tool of text, whether it is Chinese, English, French which language, straightforward, subtle, and awkward expression, it is nothing more than a combination of words upside down, and there is no essential difference between people and AI combinations, and even AI is faster and more varied. The logical structure of AI is very rigorous, if you ask it to talk about the pros and cons of a thing, it can list 8, 10 or even 20 points, and it can exhaust the relevant information, and no matter how good a person's memory is and how strong his expression is, he can't do this. "AI has cracked the problem of using words to explain words, and let me see the glass ceiling of traditional model education theory research. The future of education theory also needs digitalization to break through it, which is very challenging. ”Li Junyi admits that he is much more anxious about the direction of research as a researcher than as a parent who is worried about the future of his child. The future guided by AI is incomparable, it is something of another dimension, and no one can give a clear standard answer, only long-term and anxiety coexist. But uncertainty also means that you don't necessarily lose out to someone because you didn't do anything, so you don't need to be too anxious. part.2
economic value or be replaced.
But the value of human existence will not
Many parents ask on public platforms such as Xiaohongshu, "Is it still necessary to learn English and learn to draw?"After learning for many years, it may not be able to compare to the output and quality of AI, but if it will be replaced by AI, what is the use of learning?Li Junyi's wife asked him exactly the same question. Li Junyi's view on this is,"To be replaced" is not to be "eliminated". At what level will people be replaced by AI?It's economic value. We trade power for money, and this process will be partially replaced by AI because it is highly productive. But the value of human existence itself will not be replaced. There are countless scenarios where people need each other, and there are too many added values to be measured in money. Mom's home-cooked meals are definitely different from the machine-processed exquisite meals in restaurants. Another example is education, learning Xi knowledge and obtaining data through AI is definitely cheap, efficient and accurate, but the teacher's words and deeds, patience and love, these feelings and experiences are not available in AI. 
AI replaces only the economic benefits of people's skills, not the social benefits and individual life benefits of all these abilities. Therefore, Li Junyi very much encourages his daughter to learn all the things that interest her. Whether you learn to write or draw, you can enjoy it by yourself once you learn it. Maybe in the AI era, you only need to take out 10% of all abilities to earn money and live a good life, and the remaining 90% is for enjoying life. But if you don't learn anything, and the little things you know are replaced by AI, then your life will be very pale. As for what to do with future employment and what to learn to make money, Li Junyi thought more openly, "My child is only in primary school, and there are more than ten years before employment, and no one can predict what will happen in the middle, more than 10 years ago, do we know what is a hot industry today?"But he believes that in the future, the economic cost of the basic materials needed for human survival will be greatly reduced, which Musk and many other celebrities have done. As long as you don't want to become a top rich person, but live a quality life as an ordinary person, it is relatively easy to do. How to do something creative outside of the material basis of life is a problem that the current education system has not solved. 
Because the current education is career-oriented, in the future, people will find that it is useless to go to university, and they cannot find a job, or they are not needed for the job, and this education ecology will collapse quickly. There are many young people in the United States who choose not to go to college, tuition fees are getting more and more expensive, and the return on academic qualifications is not as high as before, and the cost performance of higher education is decreasing. "So it's useless to be anxious, and we don't focus on specific choices. "It's like my daughter is learning to drawLi Junyi will not find her any "more worthwhile skills" to learn, but let her be creative. "What we're comparing to AI is not the ability to create itself, it's the result. Skills are not creativity, works are. Even if AI is more powerful, people can choose to continue to create, which is nothing more than to let AI help them do more and better. part.3
Three expectations for children.
Don't ask for the upper limit, only the bottom line
Because he knows that ordinary people are powerless in the face of the powerful functions of AI and the speed of evolution, Li Junyi only emphasizes three things in his communication with children:Don't be captive by AI. Let children realize that the best state of life is to bring value to others and society in the process of continuous creation. Feel pleasure in creativity and vitality, rather than living as a person who is carefully and thoughtfully served by AI and enjoys AI captivity with peace of mind. Don't be assimilated by AI. AI algorithms are often the optimal path, but children's Xi learning methods and growth paths should not be assimilated by shortcut thinking. There is a Go player in South Korea, named Shin Zhenzhen, who learned to play chess with AI, and the consistency with the best selection of AI can be as high as 80%, and he has the nickname of "Shengong Intelligence". But in an interview he said, "If I didn't play Go, I'm nothing," as if he had lived as an AI shadow. "We also don't want children to be assimilated by AI, they are well arranged from birth to death, and take the fastest shortcut along the way. It doesn't hurt to allow life to be unexpected, and it doesn't hurt to take a detour to see the scenery, they are all different life experiences. Don't take your own life. This is Li Junyi's biggest concern, and he has already talked to her twice despite the child's young age. "In the era of artificial intelligence, the mental problems of society will become more and more serious. "AI's powerful information capabilities will make many people ignore communication with people, because there are misunderstandings, compromises, refutations, and concessions between people, but it will be very comfortable to communicate with AI, and it will be easy to go to extremes after being pleased by AI for a long time. There have also been cases abroad where people feel that life is meaningless and commit suicide after chatting with AI. "All Dad can tell you is to protect your bottom line, and where the upper limit is, it's up to you to fly. Li Junyi will talk to his daughter like this. "Knowledge, resources, ability, boundaries, the world we know is completely different from the future, it is normal to not know where the upper limit is, but parents can still make a difference in family relationships, family atmosphere, and social cognition, and keep the bottom line of children's growth. ”part.4
5 Abilities Necessary for Survival in the AI EraBut AI hasn't been without its troubles. Schwartz, a lawyer in New York for 30 years, assisted his client in his case, and he submitted a 10-page document citing more than six precedents to dismiss the court's dismissal of the case. Strangely, no one was able to find the source of the six precedents in the document. Schwartz only then admitted that he used ChatGPT to prepare legal documents, the first time he had used ChatGPT, not knowing that what ChatGPT wrote could be fake . There are many people who believe that all the answers given by AI are true because of its powerful information retrieval capabilities, and are unwilling to take the time to check and check repeatedly. Gradually, some people have discovered that "AI can lie and make something out of nothing". 
The ability to distinguish between true and false information is obviously an extremely important survivability in the AI era. In his new book "Super AI Activates Future Education", Li Junyi proposes five capabilities needed to adapt to the digital world, and the first one isThe ability to harness information。"Harness" is the synthesis of searching, understanding, analyzing, and screening. Purifying information for children is like creating a sterile environment for growth, ideal but fragile. Only by allowing children to be exposed to all kinds of false information and understand the complexity of information can they develop a pair of "sharp eyes" in a world full of fake information. The second isThe ability to understand probabilities。By "probability" we don't mean calculations in math problems, but rather thinking. Probabilistic thinking is about understanding the uncertainty of a complex world, there is no definite answer, there are no 0s and 1s, it is all probabilities. People's decisions are based on probability, making a choice that may have a better outcome, but the outcome is not necessarily good, is that to be annoyed or regretted?No, it's about accepting probability, readjusting your algorithm, and starting anew. Probabilistic thinking is particularly important, and it is one thing that is not paid much attention to from primary and secondary school to university education nowadays, and it is also very scarce. The third is the ability to program . Some people say that AI can program, and children can just master programming thinking, but Li Junyi has a different view on this. He believes that programming is the language of AI, the entrance to deep communication with the digital world, and that only by knowing how to program can he truly "two-way communication" with AI, rather than passively accepting output, even if it is only a little, he is not a programming master, and it is a world of difference compared with not at all. The fourth is project management skills. In the future, long-term careers will be fragmented, and many things will become modules one by one. Having project management skills, whether it's managing others, yourself, or AI tools, is very useful. And the last one is the economic cognition of life. Economic thinking is the recognition of scarcity, we must be able to fully understand what is scarce in ourselves, what is my economic model in this world, what is scarce in others, and what I want to exchange for my most precious things. It's hard to understand and figure it out, but it's also important. part.5
Treat AI as a flood beast
It's better to "dance with the wolves" yourself
Should students be allowed to use AI tools?"There has been a lot of disagreement in society about this. 
Li Junyi has also encountered this kind of inquiry several timesHe would ask the parents, "How much did you use yourself?"”He said that there is no standard answer to the question of "should or should not be used", and the depth of use by parents (including teachers) determines how they can answer this question, rather than choosing a louder and more authoritative defense from society to make decisions for their children. Artificial intelligence is still far away from the campus and students, if the child is still in primary and secondary school, the first thing parents should consider is not the child, but themselves. How much do parents know about AI, how much do they use it, and whether they can get the accurate information they want through a series of questions......The deeper the parents' knowledge and use, the easier it is to make judgments. If you are worried about your child being replaced by AI, there are many things parents can do. Instead of being deterred, it is better to "dance with wolves" and spend enough time and patience to domesticate it, and it will also become a docile domestic dog.