Realizing the Full Benefit of Artificial Intelligence for Education

Silver Lining for Learning · Nov 5, 2022 · 1h 2m

Roy Amara of the Institute for the Future is quoted as saying: “We overestimate technology short-term, and underestimate it long-term.” How does this apply to AI? First, we now know that fears of rapid impact on employment were vastly overblown, as they were based on extrapolations of capabilities continuing in an exponential fashion, rather than plateauing. Furthermore, the progress has been for narrow applications which were, in engineering-speak, “bounded problems” like protein folding most famously.

During this session, we will examine the true abilities and gaps of AI, as delineated in…