CTV Edmonton - Man vs. Machine: computer takes on Jeopardy champs - CTV News: "A smarter automated customer service model is the obvious advance, but IBM is looking much further, suggesting the possibility of a healthcare application, that would be able to accurately diagnose patients.
Baker suggests that we are going to come to a crossroads soon and will have to seriously re-evaluate our model of learning. What is the point of memorizing certain facts (what's the capital of Idaho? What year was the Treaty of Versailles?) when computers can tell us the answers instantly.
'We have to make decisions about what we learn and what we decide to store in our own heads,' Baker said. 'What is valuable? What can humans do that computers can't do going forward?'"
Baker suggests that we are going to come to a crossroads soon and will have to seriously re-evaluate our model of learning. What is the point of memorizing certain facts (what's the capital of Idaho? What year was the Treaty of Versailles?) when computers can tell us the answers instantly.
'We have to make decisions about what we learn and what we decide to store in our own heads,' Baker said. 'What is valuable? What can humans do that computers can't do going forward?'"
“We should focus on having at least one great course online for each subject rather than lots of mediocre courses,” Bill Gates suggested in his 2010 annual letter for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Developing that best-in-the-world online course — in which students would learn as much, or more, than in an ordinary classroom or a hybrid online class — requires significant investment. The Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University, which has developed about 15 sophisticated online courses, mostly in the sciences, spent $500,000 to $1 million to write software for each. But neither Carnegie Mellon nor other institutions, which are invited to use its online courses, dares to use them without having a human instructor, too."
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