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From the popularity at the beginning of the year to the calmness in the middle of the year, AI has experienced a roller coaster this year. Even so, There is no denying the tremendous changes that AI will bring to society as a whole. Some people believe that AI is a new thinking paradigm and productivity method, and that this wave of AI will be "an invention comparable to the PC." Specific to the field of education, on the one hand, AI will have a blow to the original education method, and on the other hand, it will reshape and revitalize the entire education.

In the AI ​​​​era, the real value of people comes from their diversity and breadth of interests. In the future, education should protect the unique characteristics of each child. In the future world, geeks must become more and more popular. world.

Quotes from the dialogue: 1. AI is not only a revolution in productivity, but also a revolution in scientific research and the mother of innovation. In the future, every industry that wants to find an innovative paradigm must rely on AI. 2. The impact of AI on education, especially education in China, will be huge. Skills education will become completely ineffective under the impact of this wave of AI. Skills education is doomed to come to an end. It is only a matter of time. 3. In the next 3 to 5 years, AI translation with real-time simultaneous interpretation will definitely appear, and the accuracy will be higher than that of humans. 4. AI will be a 24/7 assistant in the education process, which is more efficient. People who cannot make better use of AI tools will slowly be eliminated. 5. The emergence of AI is promoting equity in education. Every emergence of major technological tools is an opportunity for equal rights, but AI alone is definitely not enough. 6. The reason why parents who apply for volunteer exams are anxious is because of information asymmetry. AI planners can solve this problem and give parents more reasonable and in-depth suggestions. AI planning can replace people like Zhang Xuefeng who provide consultation and planning for parents. . 7. With AI, you will find that the real value of people comes from their diversity, the breadth of their interests, and the different passions in everyone's heart. In fact, I think that education in the future should protect this, the future. The world must be a world where geeks are becoming more and more popular. 8. The opportunities brought by AI should lower the assessment of skills and increase the assessment of human characteristics. 9. Education is teaching and education. A very important thing in education is to wait. Education requires a process and needs to be nurtured by values. 10. The future era of AI is the era of geeks. The essence of the era of geeks is to find their own characteristics and maximize their own characteristics. 11. If you learn mathematics well, you will definitely earn a million dollars a year, because mathematics is the foundation of all sciences. Computers are essentially an extension of mathematical applications. 12. As long as you can ride on the rocket, you don’t need to care what class you are in. Because rockets will take you to heights you never imagined.

The following is the transcript of the conversation between Jiang Yeguang and Fu Sheng:

AI vs. The Impact and Influence of Education

Fu Sheng:

We learned a lesson beforeIn ancient Chinese, it is called a teacher, who preaches, teaches and solves doubts. In fact, the education here comes more from your mastery of a piece of knowledge and a skill. I think the impact of this wave of AI on education, especially education in China, is huge. In our past education, you mastered a skill as a sign of whether you were educated well. I often say that I am a bad student and did not do well in the college entrance examination. But then I discovered that a core problem is that if you hand out a test paper and fill in the blanks correctly, you are a good student. If I fill it out incorrectly, I am not a good student. This standard is that whoever is proficient in a skill is a good student.

Have you noticed that 95% or 98% of the education we actually experience is useless at work? Therefore, the end of skills education itself is a matter of time.

Teacher Jiang:

A teacher helps a child establish a world view and a whole systematic thinking. Being able to break away from the level of skills to see the more essential things behind skills. Maybe the average teacher will only teach a few things and remember this formula and how to apply it.

Our country actually pays great attention to this child when compiling teaching materials, including actually thinking about some current propositions. We originally hoped that children could solve problems, but now we actually hope to cultivate children's problem-solving abilities.

In fact, I personally feel that behind this is a very big change. When you find a problem, you need to think about what skills you need to use to solve the problem. I think our biggest problem now is actually that it is difficult for us to have so many teachers who are really good at inspiring children.

Fu Sheng:

There are few excellent teachers. So because good teachers are scarce, he is unfair. The teacher who went north to Beijing today is definitely of a higher standard than a teacher in a third-tier city or rural area. Children in big cities simply receive better education.

But AI is Internet-based and can be used by anyone, and the level of use is the same. On the contrary, it is narrowing the generation gap between the two sides. And it is available 24 hours a day, so its problem-solving ability is the same. So as far as AI itself is concerned, I think it must be strengthening fairness.

Teacher Jiang:

As an AI planner, we have found out that we need to fill out volunteer reports every year, including for example, your child may want to know about his child going abroad, and about whether I will choose the domestic college entrance examination in the future, or Choose to study abroad. Parents are actually very anxious about these issues. In fact, they are often very knowledge-based questions. You only need to collect a very large amount of information and understand the situation of some children, and you can give some suggestions that are relatively reasonable and in place.

So we want to make such a product, including our understanding of volunteer reporting, and the college entrance examination volunteer reporting every yearIt's only a very short period of time. The reason why many parents are anxious is because the information is very asymmetric and they have to make a choice for their children's future at such a critical node.

AI can be a complete replacement in this direction. So we even joked that I think products like AI planners may actually be able to replace teachers like Zhang Xuefeng in consulting and planning for parents.

Are chicken babies still necessary in the AI ​​era?

Fu Sheng:

It depends on how you define Jiwa. The biggest responsibility as a parent is to open some bridges for your children to understand the world. You should not pass on to your children things that you cannot achieve yourself. Children are also independent living beings. If he has any interest, let him be truly inspired from his heart. I think it’s okay.

Especially in the AI ​​era, there is no need to get excited about one or two points. When these Internet companies recruit people, especially if you look at these Internet celebrities, their academic requirements have been reduced a lot.

Teacher Jiang:

Education is teaching and educating. One of the most important things in education is waiting. In fact, education requires a process. It requires you to have a whole atmosphere and a kind of values ​​​​to give him such an influence.

Many children who do very well in this exam actually have a very fragile mentality. If they fail to do well in the exam once, they feel that the sky is falling, and they hope to take the exam quickly next time so that they can regain a sense of security. .

There is no permanent first place in the grade in the senior year of high school. That is to say, when you actually enter this life and work, you will find that you can never always be the leader. Because you have always been the leader, the pressure on you is very huge. And many times it means that when you change from a leader to a laggard, whether your mentality can be adjusted, and whether you can have a normal mentality to face this.

Life is very long. You must feel that you are an ordinary person and have such a mentality, instead of always saying that you must be in the spotlight. These trainings are actually very important in high school.

Fu Sheng:

Children’s mental health must first of all be of great concern. The incidence of depression among teenagers is now very high, with 23% of teenagers having a tendency to be depressed. My conclusion is that because the external environment changes too fast, your brain cannot keep up.

What is the manifestation of mental health? The child must have interests and be passionate about something. If he is not passionate about anything, this is a bottom line issue.

This also happened to my child when she was growing up. She didn’t seem to be enthusiastic about anything. That is, when she is in this state, don't be anxious. Your anxiety will put pressure on her. You should treat her as an independent living being. She has the ability to repair herself. Don't put pressure on her in the opposite direction.

I studied hard on my own during the winter vacation of my senior year of high school. In fact, there is no particular order for attaining enlightenment. Reading thousands of books will lead to a journey of thousands of miles. After reading thousands of books, you will continue to go and let him experience more of the outside world. After you set this bottom line, you will continue to guide his points of interest.

Teacher Jiang:

When I started to be a teacher, I was actually moved by a story. A reporter went to western China and asked the shepherd boy what he wanted to do in the future. I want to herd sheep, but why do I want to herd sheep? Make money, give birth to a baby after making money, herd sheep after giving birth, and make money after herding sheep.

At the end of his story, the reporter gave him a world map and said this, which impressed me deeply: Today I am giving you this world map because I want you to see what the world looks like. What does it look like, then I hope you can step on it one day. I think what you just mentioned is that one of the most important things for exciting children in the new era is that knowledge ignites passion.

Fu Sheng:

I think that the essential problem in many children’s education is actually the problem of parents. That is, when your own understanding of the world is very limited, you follow the It is difficult for us adults to understand the truth that if we hold children to this standard, everyone will suffer in the end.

You have to use AI more and understand it yourself. Sometimes it is really not a matter of money, but a matter of consciousness. This awareness is critical. If parents really want to solve their children's problems, they must first solve their own problems.

Teacher Jiang:

I personally think the most important thing when growing up as a parent is that you must also be able to keep pace with the times. In fact, to put it bluntly, you should use more AI products so that you can use more AI-related things in your home. Parents keep up with the times, and ultimately help their children keep up with the times.

Fu Sheng:

This is an example of our company. He is now in charge. We often jokingly call him the CTO of an Internet cafe in Henan. He was an Internet cafe network administrator. Although he does not have a good academic qualification, he has special characteristics. He is very enthusiastic about everything he does. He is also different from his parents. A kind of rebelliousness, he also retains this trait. So when the Internet appeared, he was very active in replying to forums and learned things very quickly.

In the AI ​​era, what exactly are people competing for?

Fu Sheng:

The future must be an era of geeks, because future needs are very diverse, and people in the future are entertainment ation, so I think what will compete in the future is the extremely strong characteristics at a certain point.

Teacher Jiang:

Yes, the essence of the geek era is to find your own characteristics and maximize your own characteristics.

Fu Sheng:

The essence of AI is to learn from various data to form what I call a human complex.average IQ. Or if it is slightly higher, there will be some special pulse points in many fields. It's just that it hasn't been discovered, and it's been smoothed out by that kind of unified education.

If you find that your child likes something particularly, you should be very happy. I have a friend whose child is neither good at anything nor good at writing. He even has ADHD or something like that, but he especially likes mechanical things, drones. I said you don’t understand education at all. This will be a huge opportunity in the future, and pilots are very important. Look at the kind of pilots who are good at taking drone photos. Today’s education system simply doesn’t accommodate those people, but I think those people who are really good at taking photos will be very good in the future.

Teacher Jiang:

So in fact, you think the difference between people in the future lies in choice.

Will the AI ​​era have lower requirements for platforms?

Fu Sheng:

Trait is actually a kind of ability. But because of AI, your ability to relearn and implement this trait will be expanded very quickly.

Of course, you may say from another perspective that in the future we will all rely on super AI platforms. This is true. Yes, and with the big AI platform in the future, we can only rely on it. This may be difficult to change within a period of time, but just like the Internet platform, it creates a monopoly. But on our personal level, if we can reach this height, we must be rising.

Teacher Jiang:

In fact, technology is not guilty, but the key is how to make good use of technology. To make good use of technology, to be honest, the requirements for people are likely to become higher and higher in my opinion.

Fu Sheng:

This is a problem for you, that is, the requirements for people must be higher and higher. So we should actually discuss how to solve the problem of increasingly higher demands on people.

Teacher Jiang:

In fact, in this new era of change, it is quite difficult to be a parent. He needs to have a very strong sense of tolerance and acceptance, otherwise he can grow with the times, so that he can grow with his children.

In the AI ​​era, what can children learn to earn a million a year?

Fu Sheng:

Mathematics is good enough to study AI algorithms. The annual salary of AI algorithm personnel in the United States may be millions of dollars.

You can think of AI as something called the Big Bang. The closer you are to the center you can get into this, this one is definitely the best. The outer layer is a lot of application layer things. In fact, all computer-related things today, including those related to biological sciences, are actually the outer layer.

Teacher Jiang:

Because mathematics is actually the basis of all sciences. Computers are essentially mathematical applicationsan extension of. It is the lowest level thing.

Yes, for example, why are people unwilling to study the mathematics department or the basic physics department? As for these majors in basic subjects, in fact, because these majors in basic subjects are, from a certain perspective, they are too basic. But what really makes money is the application layer stuff that makes money.

Fu Sheng:

Didn’t Luo Zhenyu talk about civility that day? He said that AI helped me a lot in this matter. In the past, when I wanted to look up information, I had to look for various books, which was very tiring. I asked AI to sort it out for me, then read those books, and then asked it to read them for me. The efficiency was greatly improved.

So you see, the University of Hong Kong has done such a thing. All their undergraduates are studying AI. As basic points, there are three courses: Chinese, mathematics, and AI.

Teacher Jiang:

I gave them a theory called rocket theory. I said that in fact, the nature of high wages depends on the development of the entire industry. That is, as long as you can ride on the rocket, you don't need to care about which class you are in. Because the rocket will take you, it will eventually reach a height that you may not have thought of at the beginning. At present, AI is obviously like this.

Fu Sheng:

But you know that after O1 appeared, his goal was to be a graduate student. He was helping Terence Tao solve mathematical problems, and Terence Tao said that he was equivalent to a graduate student who was of little use. He had already reached the level of a graduate student, and he would be a doctoral student after that. He should say that the path of O1 has begun to open up now. It is he who uses this human thinking model to solve complex problems, because for him, data is a problem of data training. We eat, sleep, and then look at things to think. People are always moving. He piles up graphics cards and piles up. power, and then the data keeps piling up every day.