Getting to grips with AI is no longer an option for those involved in education and training, it is essential.
There is little doubt that what is happening now with AI is transforming our world and therefore for anyone involved with education or training, engaging with AI is no longer an option, it is essential.
The extent to which AI is changing business and the workplace are a constant subject of debate. A recent report from McKinsey https://lnkd.in/efmTVPPSproposes widescale industrial benefit from Generative AI, although at the moment customer service, marketing/sales, software engineering, and R&D are the key areas of activity. So, it might be easy to think that education and training can sit back and wait for ‘their turn’ to come. However, the report suggests that Generative AI can automate 60-70% of employees' work time by understanding natural language, and that this affects higher wage knowledge work in particular. The report predicts that more than half of today's work activities will be automated by 2030-2060, a decade earlier than previous estimates and stresses that realizing the benefits of AI will require that we determine the new skills that are needed and rethink the training that is provided.
Reports about automation impacting on jobs are not new, but many of the calculations and predictions are being updated to take account of the release of Generative AI. In addition to the report from McKinsey, there are several others that look at the impact of new AI tools on the workplace, including a report from researchers at OpenAI and UPenn which also https://lnkd.in/euShK9ir
The significant implications of what is happening with AI for education and training is crystal clear. Without question, education and training are more important now than ever before and our systems must now develop the capacity to expand our human intelligence to ever more sophisticated levels, way beyond what AI can achieve. https://lnkd.in/e3Wwc32G I am certainly not alone in thinking about richer and deeper Human Intelligence in these time of AI enthusiasm, an interesting article from the Brookings institute celebrates the importance and value of curiosity and creativity https://lnkd.in/eicQKCB7 This is not the time to dumb down our human intelligence because we’ve developed smart AI that can ‘ace’ most assessments and that is full of confidence in its ability to do most of what we ask. Now is the time to rethink what we mean by the word intelligence and to focus on developing the aspects of human intelligence that cannot be automated.
