AISC 2024

This session will explore the point where education intersects technology, psychology and philosophy of mind. We will speak about artificial intelligence of course, but the focus will be reversed. What do recent advances in AI teach us about the nature of human intelligence? How exactly is it different from machines? What does it mean for education?

Turing test, the hard problem of consciousness, theory of mind and emergent properties will be thrown in the mix with semantic AI, personalised learning and cognitive biases. We will not achieve any answers, but we will try to clearly formulate the crucial questions.

I will explore the current limitations of AI in education and explain why these limitations are not likely to go away in the foreseeable future. I will touch upon several projects that we have implemented in ESF that support this. But the focus of the session will be on bigger questions: What is the human mind? How does it develop? What role does education play in it? What is uniquely human in this process and what forms could a symbiosis with machines take?

Expected Outcomes:
Some thought experiments to engage with that can change the way you think about your own mind
Some observations about AI that might have never occurred to you
You might question your entire existence
You will look at education as something that can potentially lead human knowledge in the 21st century. The new quantum mechanics?