Personalized education from AI
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I don't suppose that learning how to apply the laws of simple harmonic motion will be any easier if it's applied to the motion of the female breast.
If anything, it's going to be a bit of a distraction.
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So, yes I think this is an awesome application of AI as learning a concept but actually understanding what's happening (like we know pi is 3.14, but I think I got through school without even knowing what that "meant"), is a great idea. Slightly conflicting that AI will be helping while at the same time AI I think is going to have a massively negative impact on the ability to creatively and critically think independently. And I'm guilty of it too... I went to a conference recently and wanted to write up a summary of what happened, but I used AI to create it in 13 seconds and then I just refined it from there.
Slightly related, and we've seen this already on instagram or the tik tocks... but using AI to visually recreate historical events is really fun and immersive. There's a whole channel out there to "live during ______ from a person's POV" like what it was like to wake up and work the coal mines, or living in pompeii when Vesuvius erupted.
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We are going to have some seriously smart and educated people coming up in the next generations, along with some seriously stupid ones who just rely on AI for everything.
Jon Von Neumann, who has a reasonable claim to being the greatest intellect ever, had full time specialized tutors throughout his childhood. A version of him without that, would almost certainly not have been the towering force he became. Now, everybody will have a world class tutor in any subject, at their fingertips.
