Sam Altman, head of the American company “Open AI”, which developed the famous “ChatGPT” program, predicted today, Monday, that artificial intelligence will revolutionize education as calculators did, but he said that this technology, which is advancing very quickly, will not replace education. .
“It is likely that homework will not remain as we know it,” Altmann said in a lecture at Keio University in Tokyo.
“We have a new tool for teaching. It’s like a calculator in terms of words,” he added, and “the ways students are taught and assessed must change.”
ChatGBT is astonishing the world with its ability to generate human-like conversations, transcripts, and translations in seconds.
But it also raises concerns in several sectors, including education, as some fear that students will misuse these tools and therefore stop producing original works.
Altman is currently on a world tour, meeting with corporate leaders and decision makers to discuss the opportunities offered by generative AI as well as the future regulation of this technology.
Sam Altman, President, OpenAI
On Monday, Altman expressed his confidence in the guarantees accompanying the development of this technology, but he reiterated the existence of concerns in this context.
“The tools we have are still very primitive compared to what we will have in a few years,” he stressed, noting that OpenAI would feel a “great responsibility” if something went wrong.
And Altman again tried to allay fears that many jobs currently occupied by humans could be lost due to artificial intelligence in the future. And while he acknowledged that “some jobs will disappear,” he pointed out that “new categories” of jobs will appear in return.
“I don’t think (artificial intelligence) will have the impact that people expect in terms of employment,” he said, adding, “Almost all predictions are wrong.”
