What kind of knowledge is needed in order not to be sidelined by computers? Only when people and their personal experiences are at the center of the educational system can it be taught what machines cannot.
Dhe ChatGPT shock to schools could go much deeper than concerns about copyright infringement or fears that examinees might use the chatbot to cheat. The uneasiness lurking behind it – but one that has hardly been discussed so far – is much more fundamental: What if the previous education system suddenly turned out to be outdated by the new AI developments? An education system that, at least since its orientation to the standards of the PISA studies, has been geared towards something that machines may already be able to do much better?
In fact, it is amazing how similar the functional descriptions of “Large Language Models” like ChatGPT on the one hand and the texts on the other hand, in which the top school strategists define how they imagine the lessons, look. What do you think the “Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback – a method that uses human instructions and preference comparisons to guide the model to the desired behavior” refers to? One need only translate ‘reinforcement learning’ as reinforcement learning and swap ‘model’ for ‘student’ and one has a representation of the learning process as it might appear in current school programmes.
