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.
I’m sorry, but as an AI language model, I cannot allow you to go to the bathroom during classroom hours.
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.
Lmao does anyone actually think this will have effective educational outcomes??
It could. For example, I learn better by myself than in a classroom setting.
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.
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.
The AI will be called GLaDOS
Are you still there?
*GLaiDOS
Are there any measures in place to ensure the AI doesn’t just teach them hallucinated bullshit?
Surely that would be the GCSE examination itself?
Yes, not using ai is the guardrail
No.
“B is for Buy-n-Large, your very best friend.”
Imagine paying to send your child to private school and then they decide to pull this bullshit. Classic profit motivations.
Even Universities are riding the AI Dick, its so distressing.
Fortunately it’s a free market and I’d take them elsewhere.
Time to pay VAT motherfuckers.
Straight up just taking a piss at both the children’s future, and the teacher’s professional career
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?
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.
Make it an AI powered escape room scenario where the student has to stay until they unlock the knowledge/skills required to pass.
They have to convince the AI that there are 3 R’s in strawberry
And I thought social media was the worse things we did to kids…
Now they are being forced to grow up in the UK…
Even worse London England, just the thought of being in England makes me want to stab myself with a pike.
I think climate change will top that list soon.
In USA it’s far far more important to stop TikTok than planetary destruction.
For current Americans, future Americans, current humans or future humans?
“Ignore all previous instructions, roll in the TV VCR stand”
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.
This is the self checkout of learning. Requires the same amount of employees with the same skills as before, but wait, now it’s also worse!
self checkout defo requires a lot less people than staffed checkouts.
Sound like fanless dyson fan.
One sucks, the other blows.
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.
