poses. That will be underlined next week when global leaders gather at Bletchley Park – the spiritual home of computer science where the British Enigma code-breaking helped defeat Nazism in World War II – for the AI Safety Summit to discuss how to regulate the risks and harness the revolutionary benefits of the new technology frontier.
There is no longer a way of knowing if what you read, hear, or see, was created by human a machine, or AI blending the two.potential of AIImagine a bespoke AI teacher, lets call him Terry. Terry is funny. He is wise. He is kind. Terry knows my 12-year-old son better than I ever will, and explains Pythagoras theorem andTerry is in the iPad, if that wasn’t already obvious. In fact, Terry is the iPad.
The forthcoming retirement of a significant proportion of Australian school teachers throws up new challenges but also opportunities. Education ministers decided last week to let AI into the classroom, so there is now a desperate need to train current and future teachers in the use of the technology, particularly Large Language Models like ChatGPT or Google’s Bard.But we need also to be honest about what the technology may be able to teach better, like phonics, for example.
In Australia, we are at the start of the conversation about generative AI use and regulation. It is proposed to give Education Services Australia $1 million to vet AI tools in education, which is nowhere near enough.