Special report on the 2024 World Conference on Digital Education
In this era of rapid information technology, artificial intelligence has gradually penetrated into all aspects of our lives, including the field of education. As educators, we must pay attention to the impact of artificial intelligence on education upgrading and innovation.
At present, artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT is changing the way knowledge is produced, from human creation of knowledge in the past to AI content generation. Changing the way knowledge is disseminated, people can directly or indirectly access knowledge through artificial intelligence; Changing the international discourse system may seriously affect the correct value orientation of human beings; It has changed the existing school-running management mode such as the evaluation, management and use of teaching. It is precisely because of the far-reaching impact and hidden dangers of artificial intelligence that we must correctly grasp and use artificial intelligence to empower the development of education, and adhere to the original mission of education in the process of upgrading and innovating the education model of artificial intelligence.
In the future, education will form a new form of "teacher-machine-student" three-dimensional teaching, in which teachers, machines, and students will promote, influence, and progress each other, jointly promote the development of intelligent education, and surpass the limitations of human intelligence with the new IQ of human-machine collaboration. In this regard, we need to focus on and solve the four types of education problems: good people-to-people, people-to-machine, machine-to-person, and machine-to-machine.
Among them, the most important thing is to do a good job in the education of people and the training of machines, so that the machines can be continuously optimized through learning and further react to education.
For people-to-people education, the emphasis is on value shaping, innovative thinking, and ability training; For human-machine education, we must do a good job in training machines, so that the cognition of machines follows the general laws of human cognition, and realize the alignment of values between machines and people; In terms of machine-to-human education, machine intelligence provides teachers and students with functions such as knowledge acquisition; For machine-to-machine education, it is necessary to realize knowledge distillation, simulation, adversarial games, autonomous intelligence, etc.
Interviewed by reporter Huang Lulu).
China Education Daily, 2024-02-01, 2nd edition
Author: Reporter Huang Lulu.