Colorado Springs – All on AI.
This was the billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban message sent on July 25 on how to improve the American education system.
Addressing the National Governors Association during a discussion on stage with the governor of Colorado Jared Polis on the initiative of Broadmoor on governors “Let's prepare!
Instead of identifying ways to incorporate artificial intelligence into our current education model, which he said has changed little since the 1880s, he thinks that educators should unlock the full potential of AI.
“Why wouldn't you like to determine what you want your children to learn, whether it's your own children, you are at home or children at school,” said Cuban. “Is it right to read, write”, rithmetic so that they can do well tests? Or is it a logical thought. Is it a critical thinking, in addition to reading, writing and “rithmetics?
“And would it not be better to personalize the use of AI to configure quiz and training sessions that not only have made the training, but also took the answers and analyzed them against all the other responses to search for shortcomings or an acceleration so that it knows that this student will need help.”
Polis, who ends his mandate as president of the National Governors Association, opened the door to the discussion of the AI with his first question.
“Let's start with AI, in two ways. First, in a way in the world, how does it change the world in which we live for the best or the worst, the macro level?
Cuban took it from there.
He said he had fed questions about how to improve our education system in several AI systems before coming to the July 25 session, recognizing that everyone – Chatgpt, Grok, Perplexity, Openai, etc. – To their individual strengths and weaknesses. His comments, said Cuban, were developed using a consensus of responses from several AI platforms.
The AI can personalize the problems, the lessons and the quizs for individual students in a way that no teacher could never, said Cuban, personalizing delivery and the pace according to their answers. In this way, the best and worst students in all schools have an equal opportunity to increase their knowledge in the fields that educators who set up the program consider important.
With the AI knowledge base, each student with a device connected to the Internet has access to work by doctors, mentors, almost all books in each library, research published by researchers and teachers, etc., said Cuban.
“There is nothing they do not have access,” said Cuban. “Each governor of this room, your assistants use Chatgpt and now your 4 -year -old child has access to the same information? When did this ever happen in the history of the world before?
“It is ultimate democratization, the egalitarian use of knowledge. It's incredible.”
The American Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, participated in a session of previous questions and answers led by Polis and also pleaded for the extended use of AI in classrooms. She talked a lot about the individualized learning of which she witnessed in a class of mathematics in a school in Austin, Texas, where each student worked on a problem on his own individual screens while the teacher watched 25 years. When the teacher saw a student struggling, said McMahon, she went to her office to help.
Cuban said that the eight or nine larger AI companies spent tens of billions of dollars a year, perhaps more than $ 100 billion per year, in the hope of becoming the dominant force worldwide in artificial intelligence.
This competition said Cuban, forces them all to compete with information to be able to train models. While they are trying to “silo” this information so that it is only available for their models and not that of their competitors, Cuban said that governors should have no trouble entering to offer free or inexpensive access to their systems in exchange for AI's access to the questions and answers of tens of thousands of people, or even millions of their students. Without forgetting that the students become familiar with a system that they could continue to use far beyond school.
States and educators can and should build railing in the systems they choose, he said, to make sure that students do not move too far from the subject and finish their tasks. And, he urged governors to ensure that all AI providers keep text files from all requests and responses from users under the age of 18 who can be easily accessible by parents or tutors.
Recalling that he was often seated in his own children, now aged 15, 18 and 21, in front of an iPad to look at “Scooby-Doo” to entertain them when they were young, Cuban said that he would use AI now, by connecting certain questions that could allow them to start investigations that would reach their curiosity and give him more information on their interest and their learning style. Parents of older children who are worried about their children do not like to read, he said, should simply start them on the exploration of AI of everything they hoped that their children would learn from these books. That their natural curiosity opens the way, said Cuban.
At home and in class.
“We have this unique tool that has never existed before,” said Cuban. “We must use it for a way to teach that has never been done before.”
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