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"Last year I attended a panel on generative AI in education. In a memorable
moment, one presenter asked: “What’s the big deal? Generative AI is like a
calculator. It’s just a tool.”
The analogy is an increasingly common one. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman
himself has referred to ChatGPT as “a calculator for words” and compared
comments on the new technology to reactions to the arrival of the calculator.
People said, ‘We’ve got to ban these because people will just cheat on their
homework. If people don’t need to calculate a sine function by hand again
[…] then mathematical education is over.’
However, generative AI systems are not calculators. Treating them like
calculators obscures what they are, what they do, and whom they serve. This
easy analogy simplifies a controversial technology and ignores five crucial
differences from technologies of the past."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
