Personally, I disagree with the view that machines can overtake teachers because they lack an artistic view. They are very practical and accurate, but do not have an artistic approach to their marking. They can grade grammar and vocabulary, but can never match up to how a human critiques a piece of work. Machines will never replace humans as teachers.
Hi Yu Hann,
ReplyDeleteI agree that it will be hard for machines to replace teachers, as languages are of infinite compexity, impossible for a mere set of algorithms to fully understand. Machines can only grade based on technical spelling and grammar issue an can in no way render help in terms of creativity, originality and writer's craft. However, relating this to your Singularity post, do you think it would be possible that in the future, due to the accelerated progress of technology that machines would be able to develop creativity? If technology can really make such a great leap, applying actual intellegence and thinking proccesses in machines, it would be a real revolution in technology. So, does this means that machines may replace teachers, or even the whole human race, in the future? Just some food for thought.
Cheers,
Bing Qian
Thanks, for the insight, Bing Qian.
ReplyDeleteHowever, no matter how efficient the robots become, and however badly the humans are beaten, artificial intelligence cannot replicate creativity in any way. Not that I see any possibilities as of the moment, that is.