Still waiting for GPT-5 to arrive at some point, having been announced, ChatGPT continues at its own pace with nothing else to look forward to in the uncertain future ahead of us. Bill Gates is clear: his AI could greatly improve the education of our children, especially by teaching them to read and write.
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Learn to read and write in 18 months
The education system in Europe is neither the best nor the worst, but it can always be improved, as is the case in many countries where the development of society is based on it.
The news comes from CNBC, which shares that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates now maintains that AI chatbots are on their way to helping our children learn to read and write. in just 18 months.
Gates claims that artificial intelligence can have the ability to be as good as a tutor and as never before any human could have done it before. These words were dropped during a keynote speech last Tuesday at the ASU + GSV Summit in San Diego.
We have already learned that generative AI, such as that of ChatGPT or Google’s Bard, has improved in recent months to reach human-level intelligence, as some tests carried out show.
This growth, for better or for worse, has shaken many of the foundations on which the system and society in which we live rests. Fears have also been generated as possible replacement of workload and we really don’t know where we’re going; in fact, 300 million jobs worldwide are predicted to be at risk.
Chatbots with AI breaking patterns
With its great ability to read and write, according to Gates, generative AI will soon help students improve your reading comprehension as was his ability to write like technology never had before.
His words also mean that we will be surprised at first how much help he will give in reading, because he is already an excellent assistant in this matter, and in giving advice on writing.
And it is that until recently, historically, the skills to teach writing had been a very complicated task for a computerthis is what Gates quoted in the keynote held in San Diego.
When teachers review texts or essays, they examine the narrative structure and clarity of the prose; a very complicated skill that requires a highly cognitive exercise that has until now been very difficult for programmers to reproduce.
Lack of being a competent tutor
The ability of AI based chatbots has broken this maxim and they are able to recognize and recreate human-like language which changes dynamically. Kevin Roose, technology columnist for The New York Times, has previously said that he uses ChatGPT to improve his writing with the ability of AI to quickly scan style guides.
Like many academics who have said they are impressed with skill of chatbots to make summaries and give your opinion in the form of texts, or simply write complete essays.
The big problem with this generative AI, at the moment, is that it can introduce significant errors or offer incorrect information. Gates clarifies that AI technology must improve the reading and recreation of human language to engage students before they can become a viable tutor.
The funniest thing about all of this is that chatbots excel in copywriting and writing before mathematics, especially since they are designed under all kinds of arithmetic calculations and algebra, even if the teaching of these subjects will be their next step.
There is a very present difficulty in mathematical calculations: if a solved mathematical equation already exists in the datasets on which the chatbot has been trained, it will give the solution, but calculating it on its own is a whole other story.
Bill Gates gives current generative AI two years to become a math tutor and says it can become a private available online all the time for students who for some reason cannot afford it.
It will be a time of great change, because according to Gates, having access to a tutor is too expensive for students, especially when they have to adapt and remember everything the student has done throughout their school career. . And this is where generative AI will come into play.
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