The Education and AI battle is ON
I read an article about a university in UAE reinstating paper-pen exams to combat the ChatGPT threat. We are at an inflexion point and the education system which has already been undergoing a reconsideration and redesign, is being subjected to the onslaught of the AI revolution in a manner that it is completely taken by surprise. While the 'threat' of students using AI tools to submit assignments and answer their tests is Real; but so is the fact that these very same students are using and will use AI extensively in their daily life for personal as well as professional tasks. So by by banning the AI tools, are we preventing them from learning the right skills for their future??? But on the other hand, we know that early and over reliance on the tools leads to stunted growth of mental faculties. With mobile phones, we lost the ability of remembering phone numbers which led us to not developing number-remember faculties - resulting in we not remembering any kind of long numbe