I have been ‘visiting’ with chatGPT a bit recently. If I am informed sufficiently, I can ask questions in such a way that it adds to my knowledge. If I don’t know much about a subject, sometimes my questions and its answers are not very good. However, if I stay with the conversation for a while, I often will learn something. It will often give me a place to start to learn more.
An interesting thought, to me, came to me as I thought about this. After being on the planet for quite a few years. And, after engaging with the U.S. education system for many of those years, it seems we are creating AI ‘wet-ware’. Our students seem to be trained to learn a rather large number of facts and are tested on their ability to remember them.
Of course all generalizations are false, and there are some excellent students out there; I had some in my class. And, of course, I saw far more in the first grade readers than in the University students.
The reason for the title of this piece is, it seems we are teaching students in much the same way we teach AI entities. A difference is the AI has a much larger memory and often writes better.