Fears of Science and Technology and the Future of AI in Education

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Fears of Science and Technology and the Future of
AI in Education
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• The field of artificial intelligence feels like
  future technologies that we are going to have to
  face one day, but the reality is that the
  concepts have been around since the early 20th
  century. Alan Turings test has stood as the test
  of true artificial intelligence and that came
  back around the time of World War II. In fact, we
  can see through media how artificial intelligence
  has fueled both intrigue and fear throughout the
  century. There are many films and books on
  technology and the dangers and artificial
  intelligence is all a part of it. Firstly, we can
  consider i, Robot, a book by Isaac Asimov and a
  hit movie with Will Smith about a robot that
  develops sentience. There were three rules
  posited about robots in this that have stood with
  the Turing test about how robots should behave,
  including that robots cant kill humans,
  something that is our existential fear when it
  comes to artificial intelligence.

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• In fact, that is why we have seen so many films
  and books on science that are exploring those
  exact fears. Even one of the biggest blockbuster
  franchises of all time, if not the biggest, the
  Avengers series touched on this in the second
  team-up film, Avengers Age of Ultron. Tony
  Stark, aka Iron Man, famously had Jarvis, an AI
  butler that also served as his on-board sidekick.
  He expanded on this to create a defense AI called
  Ultron, which took on thoughts of its own to
  decide that the human race needed to be
  eradicated and his robots would reign.
  Transcendence was a film about a man uploading
  his brain to a quantum computer in a way that his
  human brain becomes artificial intelligence.
  Upgrade is about a man who gets a Six Million
  Dollar Man style rebuild after an accident and
  has an intelligent system taking control of his
  body to perform incredible action stunts. This
  imagining on new technologies ends with the
  computer system locking out the human brain and
  essentially killing him. We look at artificial
  intelligence often as our fears of the machine,
  but it is much harder to make it entertaining to
  see the wonders that artificial intelligence can
  bring.

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• As much as we dream when it comes to science and
  technology, we are also exaggerating how far it
  goes. We can incorporate artificial intelligence
  into our lives without it becoming a sentient
  murder robot because it does not have to go as
  far as a fully functioning and feeling brain like
  we are projecting. Instead, we can take advantage
  of the computers computing power without having
  to know all of the code to access it.

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• Artificial intelligence in education will one day
  help students by procedurally adapting to the
  students learning pace and abilities and
  adjusting the lessons accordingly. While we might
  fear the true power of machines, we can also look
  at the ways that we can unlock new insights
  through artificial intelligence and make it so
  the computers are an extension of us, rather than
  a competitor.
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