A private school in London is opening the UK’s first classroom taught by artificial intelligence instead of human teachers. They say the technology allows for precise, bespoke learning while critics argue AI teaching will lead to a “soulless, bleak future”.

The UK’s first “teacherless” GCSE class, using artificial intelligence instead of human teachers, is about to start lessons.

David Game College, a private school in London, opens its new teacherless course for 20 GCSE students in September.

The students will learn using a mixture of artificial intelligence platforms on their computers and virtual reality headsets.

  • @Harvey656@lemmy.world
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    126 months ago

    So many things come to mind reading this, but the most important thought is: This will be how the bastards finally get rid of those pesky teachers and their gasp progressive teachings! /s I hope this fails hard, because a world without trading ideas to children is just prison for all.

    • @wabafee@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      It potentially could, even better if it’s still supervised by an actual teacher but each children would have their own AI, so teaching subjects could be personalized. This could mean slow students can still catch up and have bigger chance understanding the said subjects.

      • @overload@sopuli.xyz
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        26 months ago

        If the AI doesn’t hallucinate incorrect information, I totally agree.

        One size fits all classroom learning leaves many students behind, and having a personal AI tutor could really help kids fill in the gaps in their understanding that would otherwise be overlooked.

        AI hallucinations is still a very real factor that limits the usefulness of this tech right now though. I magine coming into class and your tutor you had yesterday is confidently telling you the opposite of the fact that it taught you yesterday.

  • Sigilos
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    116 months ago

    “B is for Buy-n-Large, your very best friend.”

  • Chaotic Entropy
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    296 months ago

    Imagine paying to send your child to private school and then they decide to pull this bullshit. Classic profit motivations.

  • dinckel
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    146 months ago

    Straight up just taking a piss at both the children’s future, and the teacher’s professional career

  • @JigglySackles@lemmy.world
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    326 months ago

    That’s stupid as hell. They think a bunch of kids are just going to sit there and listen to a robot? They don’t expect them to take advantage of every flaw in AI? Not only that but it removes the human interaction element of development. And to just top it off, AI is so basal right now that it will most likely teach students erroneous information anyways. Why are so many influential people with money complete morons?

    • Karyoplasma
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      56 months ago

      It’s not that they’re morons, it’s that they don’t care shit about others or the future of others. And that’s why they are rich, intellect plays only a very little part in that equation.

  • @winkly@lemmy.world
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    106 months ago

    Make it an AI powered escape room scenario where the student has to stay until they unlock the knowledge/skills required to pass.

  • @gencha@lemm.ee
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    266 months ago

    Marketing play to grab the money off of rich parents. There are still teachers, they are just proxied by “AI”. And there will also still be teachers monitoring. And there will still be teachers for certain topics.

    So it’s teacherless, but with plenty of teachers.

  • @CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world
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    286 months ago

    I bet those kids can’t wait to learn about how issac newton invented the colour yellow when seeing an apple fall from a lemon tree hitting a cow and thus causing him to invent gravity which trapped photons from venus allowing humans to finally have the technology to grow pineapples in canada.