Hey, Douglas. I really connect with this article. Begs the question, what industries are next for our country in the era of AI? Just thinking out loud.
That's a great question Bonner. We still seem to be having, similar to the "wealth gap", the "intellectually curious gap" widening all the time. If we as a country do it right, we will stop obsessing about politically correct nonsense, partisan team play, and related tomfoolery, and send our best and brightest into energy - things like petroleum engineering, nuclear engineering. Maybe, to catch a current trend, some intellectual horsepower that goes into cultivating and delivering affordable non-processed food. Engineering in general would be a good start. It's a good place to harvest and cherry pick the best intellects for other fields.
Those are things that I would wish, and it's a bit of a projection on my part, but those areas are dominated by people born in other parts of the world.
The AI era has to be like the Internet Era. Something to use as a tool, not as a replacement for thought.
Bravo! I will be weighing in on this topic soon. Ironically, it is a problem that can easily be solved with pens, pencils, paper, and in class assignments, exams and writing exercises. However, we do not pay teachers enough to do the necessary leg work. When I taught the "Law and Theory of War" at Columbia and Bard there were no exams, only weekly 750-1000 word essays based on their reading of two opposing points of view reads on the same event. I always had them start with the Battle of Agincourt and read historian John Keegan and journalist Laurence Weschler "Was Henry V's order to execute the French archers at Agincourt an atrocity or military necessity?" Yes or No--No equivocating It was a huge amount of work for me to read and grade all of those essays, but there was laziness or cheating. Also, I called on students Socratic style, there was no hiding in the back of the room. Phones simply need to be banned form the classroom and we have to go back to Chatam House Rules.
Well said. The technology has to be put on a short leash - and I think it should be ignored until a child is 9 or 10 years old.
It’s getting bad. That example with the 1st amendment threw me. It’s only because I’ve been in the school business since 1996 and am a grizzled veteran that I didn’t lose my shit.
Hey, Douglas. I really connect with this article. Begs the question, what industries are next for our country in the era of AI? Just thinking out loud.
That's a great question Bonner. We still seem to be having, similar to the "wealth gap", the "intellectually curious gap" widening all the time. If we as a country do it right, we will stop obsessing about politically correct nonsense, partisan team play, and related tomfoolery, and send our best and brightest into energy - things like petroleum engineering, nuclear engineering. Maybe, to catch a current trend, some intellectual horsepower that goes into cultivating and delivering affordable non-processed food. Engineering in general would be a good start. It's a good place to harvest and cherry pick the best intellects for other fields.
Those are things that I would wish, and it's a bit of a projection on my part, but those areas are dominated by people born in other parts of the world.
The AI era has to be like the Internet Era. Something to use as a tool, not as a replacement for thought.
Bravo! I will be weighing in on this topic soon. Ironically, it is a problem that can easily be solved with pens, pencils, paper, and in class assignments, exams and writing exercises. However, we do not pay teachers enough to do the necessary leg work. When I taught the "Law and Theory of War" at Columbia and Bard there were no exams, only weekly 750-1000 word essays based on their reading of two opposing points of view reads on the same event. I always had them start with the Battle of Agincourt and read historian John Keegan and journalist Laurence Weschler "Was Henry V's order to execute the French archers at Agincourt an atrocity or military necessity?" Yes or No--No equivocating It was a huge amount of work for me to read and grade all of those essays, but there was laziness or cheating. Also, I called on students Socratic style, there was no hiding in the back of the room. Phones simply need to be banned form the classroom and we have to go back to Chatam House Rules.
Well said. The technology has to be put on a short leash - and I think it should be ignored until a child is 9 or 10 years old.
It’s getting bad. That example with the 1st amendment threw me. It’s only because I’ve been in the school business since 1996 and am a grizzled veteran that I didn’t lose my shit.