Teacher coming to British classrooms who will make us TEN TIMES smarter
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Computers are getting cleverer all the time – but AI has the power to make humans much smarter too. AI teachers are already helping school pupils around the world, including those who would not otherwise have access to education, by capturing the knowledge of millions of experts and forming personalised lesson plans.
One educational AI platform, Squirrel AI, claims its virtual tutors bring together wisdom from the very best teachers by intelligently processing billions of books, images and video. The AI teacher then gets to know each individual pupil, breaking down subjects into thousands of knowledge points in order to spot gaps in students’ understanding and help them learn.
Derek Haoyang Li, Squirrel’s Chinese creator, says: “It can imitate the best teacher in the world, like Da Vinci plus Einstein, to give every student in the world equal education.”. He adds: “I think education could be dramatically changed by AI. The human brain could be 10 times smarter.”.
And it could allow pupils in poorer countries, in particular rural areas where school provision is poor, to receive the same teaching as in the best schools. Mr Li believes that AI is the future of learning – but stresses that the technology will help human teachers have more time for their pupils rather than replacing them. “In the future, the teacher will be like a pilot,” he says. “They should know how to use AI to take people to a better place.”.
