[New American] Artificial Intelligence will be taking on more and more teacher duties, including teaching reading, as AI technology advances rapidly over the next 18 months, argued controversial Microsoft founder Bill Gates. In fact, the billionaire population-control zealot said AI would soon become "as good a tutor as any human could." Speaking during a "digital learning conference" in San Diego last week, Gates outlined the path he believes the AI intrusion into education would take. "At first, we’ll be most stunned by how it helps with reading — being a reading research assistant — and giving you feedback on writing," he explained in his keynote talk at the ASU+GSV Summit.
"This should be a leveler," Gates continued, suggesting this would somehow "help" poorer parents and children as AI technology rapidly improves. "Because having access to a tutor is too expensive for most students — especially having that tutor adapt and remember everything that you’ve done and look across your entire body of work."
All of this will be happening in the near future. "If you just took the next 18 months, the AIs will come in as a teacher’s aide and give feedback on writing," he continued. "And then they will amp up what we’re able to do in math." And as if on cue, companies started publicly peddling AI tools for the classroom to "help" teachers.
Difficult to believe this once required verbal communication or a handheld device.